add a debugging printer to the gob package.
used only for debugging, debug.go is not normally part of the package source.
also add a dump program to call it.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/183075
diff --git a/src/pkg/gob/dump.go b/src/pkg/gob/dump.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a055105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pkg/gob/dump.go
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+package main
+
+// Need to compile package gob with debug.go to build this program.
+
+import (
+ "fmt"
+ "gob"
+ "os"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ var err os.Error
+ file := os.Stdin
+ if len(os.Args) > 1 {
+ file, err = os.Open(os.Args[1], os.O_RDONLY, 0)
+ if err != nil {
+ fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "dump: %s\n", err)
+ os.Exit(1)
+ }
+ }
+ gob.Debug(file)
+}
