| Debugging Go programs with the GNU Debugger |
| 30 Oct 2011 |
| Tags: debug, gdb, technical |
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| Andrew Gerrand |
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| * Introduction |
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| Last year we [[http://blog.golang.org/2010/11/debugging-go-code-status-report.html][reported]] that Go's [[http://golang.org/cmd/gc/][gc]]/[[http://golang.org/cmd/6l/][ld]] toolchain produces DWARFv3 debugging information that can be read by the GNU Debugger (GDB). Since then, work has continued steadily on improving support for debugging Go code with GDB. |
| Among the improvements are the ability to inspect goroutines and to print native Go data types, including structs, slices, strings, maps, interfaces, and channels. |
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| To learn more about Go and GDB, see the [[http://golang.org/doc/debugging_with_gdb.html][Debugging with GDB]] article. |
