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1 // Copyright 2009 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
3 // license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
5 /*
6 Package runtime contains operations that interact with Go's runtime system,
7 such as functions to control goroutines. It also includes the low-level type information
8 used by the reflect package; see reflect's documentation for the programmable
9 interface to the run-time type system.
11 Environment Variables
13 The following environment variables ($name or %name%, depending on the host
14 operating system) control the run-time behavior of Go programs. The meanings
15 and use may change from release to release.
17 The GOGC variable sets the initial garbage collection target percentage.
18 A collection is triggered when the ratio of freshly allocated data to live data
19 remaining after the previous collection reaches this percentage. The default
20 is GOGC=100. Setting GOGC=off disables the garbage collector entirely.
21 The runtime/debug package's SetGCPercent function allows changing this
22 percentage at run time. See http://golang.org/pkg/runtime/debug/#SetGCPercent.
24 The GODEBUG variable controls debug output from the runtime. GODEBUG value is
25 a comma-separated list of name=val pairs. Supported names are:
27 allocfreetrace: setting allocfreetrace=1 causes every allocation to be
28 profiled and a stack trace printed on each object's allocation and free.
30 efence: setting efence=1 causes the allocator to run in a mode
31 where each object is allocated on a unique page and addresses are
32 never recycled.
34 gctrace: setting gctrace=1 causes the garbage collector to emit a single line to standard
35 error at each collection, summarizing the amount of memory collected and the
36 length of the pause. Setting gctrace=2 emits the same summary but also
37 repeats each collection.
39 gcdead: setting gcdead=1 causes the garbage collector to clobber all stack slots
40 that it thinks are dead.
42 scheddetail: setting schedtrace=X and scheddetail=1 causes the scheduler to emit
43 detailed multiline info every X milliseconds, describing state of the scheduler,
44 processors, threads and goroutines.
46 schedtrace: setting schedtrace=X causes the scheduler to emit a single line to standard
47 error every X milliseconds, summarizing the scheduler state.
49 The GOMAXPROCS variable limits the number of operating system threads that
50 can execute user-level Go code simultaneously. There is no limit to the number of threads
51 that can be blocked in system calls on behalf of Go code; those do not count against
52 the GOMAXPROCS limit. This package's GOMAXPROCS function queries and changes
53 the limit.
55 The GOTRACEBACK variable controls the amount of output generated when a Go
56 program fails due to an unrecovered panic or an unexpected runtime condition.
57 By default, a failure prints a stack trace for every extant goroutine, eliding functions
58 internal to the run-time system, and then exits with exit code 2.
59 If GOTRACEBACK=0, the per-goroutine stack traces are omitted entirely.
60 If GOTRACEBACK=1, the default behavior is used.
61 If GOTRACEBACK=2, the per-goroutine stack traces include run-time functions.
62 If GOTRACEBACK=crash, the per-goroutine stack traces include run-time functions,
63 and if possible the program crashes in an operating-specific manner instead of
64 exiting. For example, on Unix systems, the program raises SIGABRT to trigger a
65 core dump.
67 The GOARCH, GOOS, GOPATH, and GOROOT environment variables complete
68 the set of Go environment variables. They influence the building of Go programs
69 (see http://golang.org/cmd/go and http://golang.org/pkg/go/build).
70 GOARCH, GOOS, and GOROOT are recorded at compile time and made available by
71 constants or functions in this package, but they do not influence the execution
72 of the run-time system.
74 package runtime
76 // Gosched yields the processor, allowing other goroutines to run. It does not
77 // suspend the current goroutine, so execution resumes automatically.
78 func Gosched()
80 // Goexit terminates the goroutine that calls it. No other goroutine is affected.
81 // Goexit runs all deferred calls before terminating the goroutine.
83 // Calling Goexit from the main goroutine terminates that goroutine
84 // without func main returning. Since func main has not returned,
85 // the program continues execution of other goroutines.
86 // If all other goroutines exit, the program crashes.
87 func Goexit()
89 // Caller reports file and line number information about function invocations on
90 // the calling goroutine's stack. The argument skip is the number of stack frames
91 // to ascend, with 0 identifying the caller of Caller. (For historical reasons the
92 // meaning of skip differs between Caller and Callers.) The return values report the
93 // program counter, file name, and line number within the file of the corresponding
94 // call. The boolean ok is false if it was not possible to recover the information.
95 func Caller(skip int) (pc uintptr, file string, line int, ok bool)
97 // Callers fills the slice pc with the program counters of function invocations
98 // on the calling goroutine's stack. The argument skip is the number of stack frames
99 // to skip before recording in pc, with 0 identifying the frame for Callers itself and
100 // 1 identifying the caller of Callers.
101 // It returns the number of entries written to pc.
102 func Callers(skip int, pc []uintptr) int
104 type Func struct {
105 opaque struct{} // unexported field to disallow conversions
108 // FuncForPC returns a *Func describing the function that contains the
109 // given program counter address, or else nil.
110 func FuncForPC(pc uintptr) *Func
112 // Name returns the name of the function.
113 func (f *Func) Name() string {
114 return funcname_go(f)
117 // Entry returns the entry address of the function.
118 func (f *Func) Entry() uintptr {
119 return funcentry_go(f)
122 // FileLine returns the file name and line number of the
123 // source code corresponding to the program counter pc.
124 // The result will not be accurate if pc is not a program
125 // counter within f.
126 func (f *Func) FileLine(pc uintptr) (file string, line int) {
127 return funcline_go(f, pc)
130 // implemented in symtab.c
131 func funcline_go(*Func, uintptr) (string, int)
132 func funcname_go(*Func) string
133 func funcentry_go(*Func) uintptr
135 // SetFinalizer sets the finalizer associated with x to f.
136 // When the garbage collector finds an unreachable block
137 // with an associated finalizer, it clears the association and runs
138 // f(x) in a separate goroutine. This makes x reachable again, but
139 // now without an associated finalizer. Assuming that SetFinalizer
140 // is not called again, the next time the garbage collector sees
141 // that x is unreachable, it will free x.
143 // SetFinalizer(x, nil) clears any finalizer associated with x.
145 // The argument x must be a pointer to an object allocated by
146 // calling new or by taking the address of a composite literal.
147 // The argument f must be a function that takes a single argument
148 // to which x's type can be assigned, and can have arbitrary ignored return
149 // values. If either of these is not true, SetFinalizer aborts the
150 // program.
152 // Finalizers are run in dependency order: if A points at B, both have
153 // finalizers, and they are otherwise unreachable, only the finalizer
154 // for A runs; once A is freed, the finalizer for B can run.
155 // If a cyclic structure includes a block with a finalizer, that
156 // cycle is not guaranteed to be garbage collected and the finalizer
157 // is not guaranteed to run, because there is no ordering that
158 // respects the dependencies.
160 // The finalizer for x is scheduled to run at some arbitrary time after
161 // x becomes unreachable.
162 // There is no guarantee that finalizers will run before a program exits,
163 // so typically they are useful only for releasing non-memory resources
164 // associated with an object during a long-running program.
165 // For example, an os.File object could use a finalizer to close the
166 // associated operating system file descriptor when a program discards
167 // an os.File without calling Close, but it would be a mistake
168 // to depend on a finalizer to flush an in-memory I/O buffer such as a
169 // bufio.Writer, because the buffer would not be flushed at program exit.
171 // It is not guaranteed that a finalizer will run if the size of *x is
172 // zero bytes.
174 // A single goroutine runs all finalizers for a program, sequentially.
175 // If a finalizer must run for a long time, it should do so by starting
176 // a new goroutine.
177 func SetFinalizer(x, f interface{})
179 func getgoroot() string
181 // GOROOT returns the root of the Go tree.
182 // It uses the GOROOT environment variable, if set,
183 // or else the root used during the Go build.
184 func GOROOT() string {
185 s := getgoroot()
186 if s != "" {
187 return s
189 return defaultGoroot
192 // Version returns the Go tree's version string.
193 // It is either the commit hash and date at the time of the build or,
194 // when possible, a release tag like "go1.3".
195 func Version() string {
196 return theVersion
199 // GOOS is the running program's operating system target:
200 // one of darwin, freebsd, linux, and so on.
201 const GOOS string = theGoos
203 // GOARCH is the running program's architecture target:
204 // 386, amd64, arm or arm64.
205 const GOARCH string = theGoarch