Commit e4f73769 authored by Austin Clements's avatar Austin Clements

runtime: strongly encourage CallersFrames with the result of Callers

For historical reasons, it's still commonplace to iterate over the
slice returned by runtime.Callers and call FuncForPC on each PC. This
is broken in gccgo and somewhat broken in gc and will become more
broken in gc with mid-stack inlining.

In Go 1.7, we introduced runtime.CallersFrames to deal with these
problems, but didn't strongly direct people toward using it. Reword
the documentation on runtime.Callers to more strongly encourage people
to use CallersFrames and explicitly discourage them from iterating
over the PCs or using FuncForPC on the results.

Fixes #19426.

Change-Id: Id0d14cb51a0e9521c8fdde9612610f2c2b9383c4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/37726Reviewed-by: default avatarIan Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
parent 1fa063cb
......@@ -202,11 +202,13 @@ func Caller(skip int) (pc uintptr, file string, line int, ok bool) {
// 1 identifying the caller of Callers.
// It returns the number of entries written to pc.
//
// Note that since each slice entry pc[i] is a return program counter,
// looking up the file and line for pc[i] (for example, using (*Func).FileLine)
// will normally return the file and line number of the instruction immediately
// following the call.
// To easily look up file/line information for the call sequence, use Frames.
// To translate these PCs into symbolic information such as function
// names and line numbers, use CallersFrames. CallersFrames accounts
// for inlined functions and adjusts the return program counters into
// call program counters. Iterating over the returned slice of PCs
// directly is discouraged, as is using FuncForPC on any of the
// returned PCs, since these cannot account for inlining or return
// program counter adjustment.
func Callers(skip int, pc []uintptr) int {
// runtime.callers uses pc.array==nil as a signal
// to print a stack trace. Pick off 0-length pc here
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