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: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>