What does it mean and what for in panic.go
*(*int)(nil) = 0 // not reached
(nil) is the default value of any type of “pointer” (channels, slices, pointer to struct…). So (*int)(nil) is a type casting forcing nil to be default value for the integer pointer. Finally * dereferences the pointer and assign 0 to the location pointed.
Can You post the context of this line of code?