[PATCH] D60593: [GwpAsan] Introduce GWP-ASan.

Tue May 14 16:54:16 PDT 2019

jfb added a comment.

In D60593#1498622 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D60593#1498622>, @hctim wrote:

> In D60593#1495428 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D60593#1495428>, @gribozavr wrote:
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> > What does GWP stand for?
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> Google Wide Profiling <https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-data/pdf/36575.pdf>.
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> We use the name GWP-ASan, even though it's "technically neither GWP nor ASan", but because it describes well what the outcome is (sampled allocations with memory detection capabilities). It also mirrors the name used for the identical mechanism implemented in Chromium <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/components/gwp_asan>.

Hello I'm here to bikeshed, and this is a terrible name for an LLVM project. Or super appropriate because LLVM itself is a terrible name? In any case, backronym it to something else, or rename it. Thanks!

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