[cfe-dev] About Address San...

[Kostya Serebryany]

Hi Umesh,

Yes, asan dies on the first detected error.
This is our design choice and there is no flag to override this.

If curious, these are the reasons behind such choice:
1. The call to the error reporting routine inserted by asan is marked as
noreturn, which makes the tool ~6-7% faster.
2. Bugs detectable by asan are almost always very serious, whereas
Valgrind/memcheck can report not-that-serious bugs (e.g. leaks)

Hope this helps,
--kcc

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Umesh Kalappa <umesh.kalappa0 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi All ,
>
> I'm not sure the question is relevant to the forum,My apologies if not
>
> We are trying to instrument  our code with ASan(Clang) to find the memory
> errors and we see that the application execution halts  when the Asan check
> finds the memory issue at the being. Which mean we need to fix the issue
> then compile and  execute the instrumented code again to find the next
> issue and so on .Which is fine.
>
> We would  like to know that there is any option to clang or llvm ,Where we
> can say to Asan to log  output to the file and continue to execute the
> instrumented application instead of halting the same.Like Valgrind memcheck
> has.So we can whole or almost issues  in the log .
>
> For you reference
> I'm using the clang version as
>
> [root at localhost ~]# clang --version
> clang version 3.2 (trunk)
> Target: i386-pc-linux-gnu
> Thread model: posix
>
>
> On OS
>
> Centos -6
> [root at localhost ~]# uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-220.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Dec 6 16:15:40
> GMT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> Thanks
> ~Umesh
>
>
>
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