| commit | b7c55ba49684cc454f6c699bd3b3fa8fe6455c67 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Austin Clements <austin@google.com> | Fri Sep 18 11:55:31 2015 -0400 |
| committer | Austin Clements <austin@google.com> | Fri Sep 18 22:23:11 2015 +0000 |
| tree | 99f4de127da411467df8bf123ae154cfe692d3fe | |
| parent | 7360638da09bed30bb32c183c9264f7f9f0bb8c9 [diff] |
runtime: improve invalid pointer error message By default, the runtime panics if it detects a pointer to an unallocated span. At this point, this usually catches bad uses of unsafe or cgo in user code (though it could also catch runtime bugs). Unfortunately, the rather cryptic error misleads users, offers users little help with debugging their own problem, and offers the Go developers little help with root-causing. Improve the error message in various ways. First, the wording is improved to make it clearer what condition was detected and to suggest that this may be the result of incorrect use of unsafe or cgo. Second, we add a dump of the object containing the bad pointer so that there's at least some hope of figuring out why a bad pointer was stored in the Go heap. Change-Id: I57b91b12bc3cb04476399d7706679e096ce594b9 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/14763 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
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