Hello all, I'm debugging the 5d6c770eb29ae0a33 <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/commit/5d6c770eb29ae0a33a38bd03bc6248df6eff8ded> commit of my monimelt <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt> program on github. I don't understand very well how init functions work (and I probably don't understand the order in which init functions are running, notably with init functions in several files of the same package).
I'm declaring in file <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/src/objvalmo/objvalmo.go#L895> objvalmo/objvalmo.go <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/src/objvalmo/objvalmo.go#L895> the following package private variables: var glovar_map map[string]**ObjectMo var glovar_regexp *regexp.Regexp var glovar_mtx sync.Mutex And the init function is supposed to initialize them: const glovar_regexp_str = `^[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*$` func init() { glovar_map = make(map[string]**ObjectMo) glovar_regexp = regexp.MustCompile(glovar_regexp_str) } For some reason (probably my misunderstanding or bug), the glovar_map variable is not initialized like I want it to be. BTW, it is filled in RegisterGlobalVariable function <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/src/objvalmo/objvalmo.go#L906> (same file). And that function gets called in the init function of file globals.go <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt/blob/master/src/objvalmo/globals.go#L9> of the same package. So I wanted to use a GDB watchpoint on that glovar_map. Sadly, the ELF name of that variable is objjvalmo.glovar_map with some internal dot in the name: ~/monimelt % nm bin/monimelt|grep glovar 000000000097a7f8 b objvalmo.glovar_map 00000000009990e8 b objvalmo.glovar_mtx 000000000097a800 b objvalmo.glovar_regexp and of course when I type watch objvalmo.glovar_map in gdb it does not know that variable (because gdb is interpreting the dot as a field separator). Any tricks for GDB to avoid this confusion? If you need to reproduce my bug run bin/monimelt -tiny-dump1 /tmp/foo inside the gdb debugger (in the directory <https://github.com/bstarynk/monimelt> containing README.md). FWIW, my Go is 1.8 on Linux/Debian/Sid/x86-64, I'm building with gb, and gdb is 7.12 and is reading the /usr/local/go/src/runtime/runtime-gdb.py script. (I would wish that Go would mangle names with a dollar, not a dot) Cheers. -- Basile Staynkevitch <http://starynkevitch.net/Basile/>, France ; email: bas...@starynkevitch.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
