On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:34 PM vaastav anand <vaastav.anan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is the debug info exported in the binary in DWARF format?
Yes. > And if so would this package work https://golang.org/pkg/debug/dwarf/? That is the bare bones of the DWARF information. That will let you read the DWARF info, but it won't help you map PC and SP values to variable names. > What about the global variables or the ones allocated on the heap? Are they > also not available inside the runtime either? Correct. Heap variables don't have names at all in any case. Ian > On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:28:49 UTC-7, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:43 AM <vaastav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I have been working on a research project where I have been modifying the >> > runtime such that I can control the goroutines that are scheduled as well >> > as get access to the values of program variables. >> > I know I can access the stack through the g struct for a goroutine but I >> > was wondering if someone could tell me how to get the symbol/object table >> > so that I can figure out the names of the local variables on the stack for >> > the goroutine as well as the variables on the heap. >> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> The names of local variables on the stack are recorded only the debug >> information, which is not loaded into memory. You would need to >> locate the binary, open it, and look at the debug info. Getting a >> local variable name from the debug info is complex, but Delve and gdb >> manage to do it. >> >> That is, getting the names of local variables is technically possible >> but quite hard. I wouldn't recommend this approach. >> >> Ian > > -- > 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. -- 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.
