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Mastering Go - Second Edition

By : Mihalis Tsoukalos
Book Image

Mastering Go - Second Edition

By: Mihalis Tsoukalos

Overview of this book

Often referred to (incorrectly) as Golang, Go is the high-performance systems language of the future. Mastering Go, Second Edition helps you become a productive expert Go programmer, building and improving on the groundbreaking first edition. Mastering Go, Second Edition shows how to put Go to work on real production systems. For programmers who already know the Go language basics, this book provides examples, patterns, and clear explanations to help you deeply understand Go’s capabilities and apply them in your programming work. The book covers the nuances of Go, with in-depth guides on types and structures, packages, concurrency, network programming, compiler design, optimization, and more. Each chapter ends with exercises and resources to fully embed your new knowledge. This second edition includes a completely new chapter on machine learning in Go, guiding you from the foundation statistics techniques through simple regression and clustering to classification, neural networks, and anomaly detection. Other chapters are expanded to cover using Go with Docker and Kubernetes, Git, WebAssembly, JSON, and more. If you take the Go programming language seriously, the second edition of this book is an essential guide on expert techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

About syscall.PtraceRegs

You might have assumed that you are done dealing with the syscall standard Go package, but you are mistaken! In this section, we will work with syscall.PtraceRegs, which is a structure that holds information about the state of the registers.

You will now learn how to print the values of all of the following registers on your screen using the Go code of ptraceRegs.go, which will be presented in four parts. The star of the ptraceRegs.go utility is the syscall.PtraceGetRegs() function - there are also the syscall.PtraceSetRegs(), syscall.PtraceAttach(), syscall.PtracePeekData(), and syscall.PtracePokeData() functions that can help you to work with registers, but these functions will not be used in ptraceRegs.go.

The first part of the ptraceRegs.go utility follows:

package main 
 
import ( 
    "fmt" 
    "os" 
    "os/exec" ...