[LLVMdev] Clang + SAFECode Release Announcement

Duncan Sands baldrick at free.fr
Thu Aug 18 08:17:14 PDT 2011


Hi John,

> We have a new release of Clang with SAFECode technology for detecting
> memory safety errors. Memory safety checking (SAFECode for short) can be
> turned on with a single command line switch to clang/clang++. The
> SAFECode techniques do not change the behavior of the clang/clang++
> compilers in any way when the switch is turned off, so this can be used
> as a drop-in replacement for clang/clang++.

sounds great!  However, do you have to use clang (making it useless for
Fortran etc), or can it work on LLVM IR too?

Ciao, Duncan.



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