For the following program:
package main
var f = 7 / "0"[0]
go tool compile
says:
tmp.go:2: constant 1197 overflows byte
Now sure where 1197 came from, but it must be 0 and the program must compile successfully.
go version devel +514014c Thu Jun 18 15:54:35 2015 +0200 linux/amd64