diff -r f543981e96da src/pkg/encoding/gob/type.go
--- a/src/pkg/encoding/gob/type.go	Tue Oct 08 16:16:24 2013 -0700
+++ b/src/pkg/encoding/gob/type.go	Fri Nov 08 01:48:29 2013 -0500
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 		if p := rt; p.Kind() == reflect.Ptr {
 			indir++
 			if indir > 100 { // insane number of indirections
-				return false, 0
+				break
 			}
 			rt = p.Elem()
 			continue