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Reputation: 3697

Confused by vscode delve debugger

I have searched everywhere and tried what I can, but debugging go exes in VSCODE is just acting really weird for me.

If I step through code, the debugger seems to jump around all over the place sometimes, as though I was switching threads. Most of the time if I hover over variables nothing happens. If I try to add them as watches I just get "unavailable". I am building and running from within the IDE.

I have the latest version of go and delve. I see that I should be avoiding compiler optimisations with some gcflags settings, but nothing doing. No idea how to make progress. Any clues?

UPDATE: After all, this was simply a typo in the build task used by VSCODE. The problem indeed was compiler optimisations, which needed to be disabled using the following exact syntax:

{
// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
// for the documentation about the tasks.json format
"version": "2.0.0",
"tasks": [
    {
        "label": "Make Prog",
        "type": "shell",
        "command": "go",
        "args": [
            "install",
            "-gcflags",
            "-N -l",
            "./..."
        ],
        "group": {
            "kind": "build",
            "isDefault": true
        },


    }
]

}

Relevant too is that I am using "exec", not "debug", to debug the executable.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1214

Answers (1)

Himanshu
Himanshu

Reputation: 12685

Delve enables you to interact with your program by controlling the execution of the process, evaluating variables, and providing information of thread / goroutine state, CPU register state and more.

Delve will compile the 'main' package in the current directory, and begin to debug it.

For your question:-

If I step through code, the debugger seems to jump around all over the place sometimes, as though I was switching threads

Suppose you have a code in which an error occurs and your code panics then VSCode will make you jump to the panic definition defined in its core files when debugging the code.

For your second question:-

Most of the time if I hover over variables nothing happens. If I try to add them as watches I just get "unavailable".

Vs Code can only provide you the definitions of those functions which are defined in same package, So if they are defined in another package then you have to import that package, else it will show you unavailable function definition. So check for proper imports where unavailable is showing on hover.

For more information Check usage Documentation for Delve Debugger

Edited: Even if It jumps when using F10, Create breakpoints after the code where it jumps and use F12 to jump to next breakpoint, that way it will not jump to a core function definition.

Upvotes: 4

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