diff --git a/gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE b/gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE
index 74a0dba28f7..7c78efc6f67 100644
--- a/gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE
+++ b/gcc/go/gofrontend/MERGE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-89e46ae0cde7bebd8e97434355c5b7e57d902613
+0176cbc6dbd2170bfe2eb8904b80ddfe4c946997
 
 The first line of this file holds the git revision number of the last
 merge done from the gofrontend repository.
diff --git a/gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc b/gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc
index 1e4d90647b8..82de4d815ab 100644
--- a/gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc
+++ b/gcc/go/gofrontend/expressions.cc
@@ -210,7 +210,11 @@ Expression::convert_type_to_interface(Type* lhs_type, Expression* rhs,
     }
 
   // This should have been checked already.
-  go_assert(lhs_interface_type->implements_interface(rhs_type, NULL));
+  if (!lhs_interface_type->implements_interface(rhs_type, NULL))
+    {
+      go_assert(saw_errors());
+      return Expression::make_error(location);
+    }
 
   // An interface is a tuple.  If LHS_TYPE is an empty interface type,
   // then the first field is the type descriptor for RHS_TYPE.