BUILD/CONFIG: Introduce Address Sanitizer flag option #9519
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What
Introduces
--enable-asan
option which checks the Address Sanitizer availability and passes corresponding flags during compilation and linkage.Why
Address Sanitizer is significantly faster then Valgrind and can detect more types of memory errors. For details go to the link: https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizerComparisonOfMemoryTools
Testing with GCC-7.2.0 on RHEL 7.6 detected false-positive buffer underflow errors during
ucs_container_of
call.Testing with GCC-11 on Ubuntu-22.04 detected the following issues:
So it is important to test with fresh OS/compiler.
TODO:
ASAN_OPTIONS=protect_shadow_gap=0
if cuda support enabled. See details here: asan: problem calling NVIDIA CUDA libraries google/sanitizers#629lsan.supp
(with one string:leak:libcuda
) and passingLSAN_OPTIONS=suppressions=<path_to_lsan.supp>
if cuda is enabled.