[cfe-dev] [LLVMdev] Sanitizers libs in Compiler-RT

Chandler Carruth chandlerc at google.com
Sat Feb 1 15:49:52 PST 2014


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Alex Rosenberg <alexr at ohmantics.com> wrote:

> One organizational thought to add:
>
> For us, the sanitizers contain behaviors/syscalls that are not valid on
> consumer hardware. They perform "debug" functionality and thus can only
> operate on special developer kits. Additionally, we need to put this type
> of code into a dynamic library instead of a static library to avoid
> versioning problems.
>
> I agree that this is all part of compiler_rt as a project/repo, but the
> sanitizers should remain segregated into their own runtime library.
>

I think many, many folks need the sanitizers to be segregated into their
own runtime libraries.

In fact, from a functional perspective, many of the sanitizers' runtimes
are really mutually exclusive and should never even be in the same runtime
library.
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