Comment 1:

Labels changed: added repo-main, release-go1.4.

Comment 2:

Not sure if it matters, but I'm able to reproduce this on Mac OS 10.9.4 with GNU gdb
(GDB) 7.7.1 and Go 1.3.1. I used the same build command with the same flags.
My Go program and garbage output are both attached for reference.

Attachments:

1. gdbtest.go (76 bytes)
2. gdb_garbage_out.txt (821 bytes)

Comment 3:

Probably not for 1.4.

Labels changed: added release-go1.5, removed release-go1.4.

Status changed to Accepted.

Comment 4 by jeromelaurens:

Same here with :
go version go1.3.1 darwin/amd64
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8
I also have the flags : -gcflags "-N -l"
I'm using LiteIDE
local variable showing odd values
Very annoying when you want to inspect your variables
Thanks for your help

Comment 5 by holgerfinger:

Same problem with go version go1.3 linux/amd64.
I tried gdb 7.4 and gdb 7.8.
go 1.2.2 seems to be working fine.

Comment 6 by ludmiloff:

When to expect a bug fix

Comment 7:

See http://golang.org/doc/gdb .  As it says there, making Go work well with gdb is not a
priority for the Go project.  Of course Go is an open source project and we are always
happy to accept patches.  But at the moment I'm not aware of anybody working on this
issue, so I can not predict when it will be fixed.

Comment 8 by lars.oppermann:

If gdb is not a priority, what is the recommended way for debugging go programs?

Comment 9 by eidmanna:

Even if debugging with command line is possible, it is much easier to find bugs with a
good debugger (such as the Google Chrome Javascript Debugger). Why has this issue as low
priority?

Comment 10:

Using the fmt and log packages is a pretty common way of debugging Go programs, and the
log package especially is safe for concurrent execution. gdb... not so much.

Newly tests show gdb work fines.
$ go version
go version go1.23.4 linux/amd64

GNU gdb (Ubuntu 9.2-0ubuntu1~20.04.2) 9.2

Thread 1 "gdb" hit Breakpoint 1, main.main () at /home/ulin/data/code/lean/compile/gdb.go:18
18 func main() {
(gdb) n
19 flag.Parse()
(gdb) n
20 x := iterations
(gdb) n
21 y := *x
(gdb) n
22 z := abc(y)
(gdb) n
23 fmt.Printf("%v %v\n", z, *x)
(gdb) p z
$1 = 2

Thanks.