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Golang gdb - print variables

I have a problem with gdb printing correctly. A simple program is structured as follows:

chmurson-osx:helloworld chmurson$ go build -gcflags '-N' start.go

And then gdb is executed:

chmurson-osx:helloworld chmurson$ gdb start -d $GOROOT
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>.
For help, type "help".
Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"...
Reading symbols from start...done.
warning: Missing auto-load scripts referenced in section .debug_gdb_scripts
of file /Users/chmurson/Dev/goprojects/misc/src/helloworld/start
Use `info auto-load python-scripts [REGEXP]' to list them.
(gdb) 
(gdb) source /usr/local/go/src/pkg/runtime/runtime-gdb.py
Loading Go Runtime support.

Here is what I do next:

(gdb) list
1   package main
2   
3   import "fmt"
4   
5   func main() {
6       x := "abc"
7       i := 3
8       fmt.Println(i)
9       fmt.Println(x)
10  }
(gdb) b 9
Breakpoint 1 at 0x2106: file /Users/chmurson/Dev/goprojects/misc/src/helloworld/start.go, line 9.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /Users/chmurson/Dev/goprojects/misc/src/helloworld/start 
3
[New Thread 0x1113 of process 14039]

Breakpoint 1, main.main () at /Users/chmurson/Dev/goprojects/misc/src/helloworld/start.go:9
9       fmt.Println(x)
(gdb) p x
Python Exception <type 'exceptions.OverflowError'> signed integer is greater than maximum: 
$1 = 
(gdb) p i
$2 = 8725692800
(gdb)

You can see that there is a Python exception when checking the variable "p" and not completely 3 when displaying the value of "i". What's wrong?

Here is my go version

chmurson-osx:helloworld chmurson$ go version
go version go1.3.1 darwin/amd64

And gdb configuration

(gdb) show configuration
This GDB was configured as follows:
   configure --host=x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0 --target=x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0
             --with-auto-load-dir=:${prefix}/share/auto-load
             --with-auto-load-safe-path=:${prefix}/share/auto-load
             --with-expat
             --with-gdb-datadir=/usr/local/share/gdb (relocatable)
             --with-jit-reader-dir=/usr/local/lib/gdb (relocatable)
             --without-libunwind-ia64
             --without-lzma
             --with-python=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7
             --without-guile
             --with-separate-debug-dir=/usr/local/lib/debug (relocatable)
             --with-zlib
             --without-babeltrace

("Relocatable" means the directory can be moved with the GDB installation
tree, and GDB will still find it.)
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Adding @AlexAtNet to the answer, everything after Go 1.2.x breaks GDB support, so either use 1.2.x for debugging or use gccgo (keep in mind that gcc 4.8.x supports going from 1.1, gcc 4.9.x up to 1.2) .

, , go 1.3 +.

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var traceLock sync.Mutex

func trace(a ...interface{}) {
    traceLock.Lock()
    pc, f, ln, ok := runtime.Caller(1)
    fn := ""
    if ok {
        fn = runtime.FuncForPC(pc).Name()
    }
    fmt.Printf("trace: %s %s:%d", fn, filepath.Base(f), ln)
    if len(a) > 0 {
        fmt.Println(append([]interface{}{": "}, a...)...)
    }
    traceLock.Unlock()
}

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