[cfe-dev] ASan: suppress new-delete-type-mismatch via ASAN_OPTIONS suppressions?

[Stephan Bergmann via cfe-dev]

On 06/17/2016 06:30 PM, Kostya Serebryany wrote:
> Sorry for delay. (cfe-dev is not the list I usually monitor for asan
> problems).

Ah, yeah, wasn't sure which list is best to discuss sanitizer issues.

> Suppressing new-delete mismatches might be useful in some rare cases
> (and maybe yours is like this: buggy third party code that you don't
> control).
> But I am reluctant to add more suppression mechanisms unless many people
> ask for it (extra complexity is justified only if there are enough users
> who need it; you are the first, AFAICT. I am especially careful with
> suppressions as I've seen them hurt the testing process many times).
>
> If you feel strong, please send a patch with a test and doc update to
> llvm-commits
> using phabricator. (CC me and eugenis at google.com
> <mailto:eugenis at google.com>).

Had already filed <http://reviews.llvm.org/D21378> meanwhile.  Will add 
a doc update to it in any case.  Anyway, if you don't want suppression 
support to go in that direction, we can also drop it.