Otherwise the GC may see uninitialized memory there,
which might be old pointers that are retained, or it might
trigger the invalid pointer check.

Fixes #11907.

Change-Id: I67e306384a68468eef45da1a8eb5c9df216a77c0
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/12852Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>