Commit 972df384 authored by Emmanuel T Odeke's avatar Emmanuel T Odeke Committed by Emmanuel Odeke
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runtime: during panic, print value instead of address, if kind is printable

Make panics more useful by printing values, if their
underlying kind is printable, instead of just their memory address.

Thus now given any custom type derived from any of:
    float*, int*, string, uint*

if we have panic with such a result, its value will be printed.

Thus given any of:
    type MyComplex128 complex128
    type MyFloat64 float64
    type MyString string
    type MyUintptr uintptr

    panic(MyComplex128(32.1 + 10i))
    panic(MyFloat64(-93.7))
    panic(MyString("This one"))
    panic(MyUintptr(93))

They will now print in the panic:

    panic: main.MyComplex64(+1.100000e-001+3.000000e+000i)
    panic: main.MyFloat64(-9.370000e+001)
    panic: main.MyString("This one")
    panic: main.MyUintptr(93)

instead of:

    panic: (main.MyComplex128) (0xe0100,0x138cc0)
    panic: (main.MyFloat64) (0xe0100,0x138068)
    panic: (main.MyString) (0x48aa00,0x4c0840)
    panic: (main.MyUintptr) (0xe0100,0x137e58)

and anything else will be printed as in the past with:

    panic: (main.MyStruct) (0xe4ee0,0x40a0e0)

Also while here, updated the Go1.15 release notes.

Fixes #37531

Change-Id: Ia486424344a386014f2869ab3483e42a9ef48ac4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/221779


Run-TryBot: Emmanuel Odeke <emm.odeke@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent 2001685e
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