The previous commit started printing the instruction address for runtime
panics. This commit starts using this address to print the source
location.
Here is an example where this feature is very useful. There is a heap
allocation in the Bluetooth package, but we don't know where exactly.
Printing the instruction address of the panic is already useful, but
what is even more useful is looking up this address in the DWARF debug
information that's part of the binary:
$ tinygo flash -target=circuitplay-bluefruit -monitor ./examples/heartrate
Connected to /dev/ttyACM0. Press Ctrl-C to exit.
tick 00:00.810
tick 00:01.587
tick 00:02.387
tick 00:03.244
panic: runtime error at 0x00027c4d: alloc in interrupt
[tinygo: panic at /home/ayke/src/tinygo/bluetooth/adapter_sd.go:74:4]
To be clear, this path isn't stored on the microcontroller. It's stored
as part of the build, and `-monitor` just looks up the path from the
panic message.
Possible enhancements:
- Print such an address for regular panics as well. I'm not sure
that's so useful, as it's usually a lot easier to look up panics
just by their message.
- Use runtimePanicAt (instead of runtimePanic) in other locations, if
that proves to be beneficial.
- Print the TinyGo-generated output in some other color, to
distinguish it from the regular console output.
- Print more details when panicking (registers, stack values), and
print an actual backtrace.
Ayke van Laethem
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