Variables show in debugger beyond their scope

[gauravagarwal]

Pls see the attached screenshot; the variables x and y are showing up in debugger window along with their values even before their scope has been entered - note that I have not yet entered the scope that defines x & y variables.

Is this delve problem? Or something that can be fixed in the plugin?

Idea version:15.0.2
Golang plugin: 0.10.897

[dlsniper]

Hi, thanks for reporting this.
This is information sent from Delve but I think it could be improved to detect if the code section has been reached (or variables initialized and so on).
@ignatov I don't know what effort this entails.

[dlsniper]

Also I'm not sure if it's something that can be easily fixed by delve as by default everything is initialized with their zero values in Go so I guess delve has access to everything since start. CC @derekparker to see if there's something that can be done delve side (send values for things that have been initialized by reaching the code only).

[derekparker]

@dlsniper this is a known issue with Delve and is due to missing debug information in the binary. The Go linker does not emit fully accurate DWARF information. See: https://github.com/derekparker/delve/issues/186 and upstream golang/go#12899.

[dlsniper]

@derekparker thanks for reply.