[LLVMdev] Testing canaries

[Izabela Maffra]

Dear LLVMers,

    I am trying to measure the performance overhead (if any) of the
canaries that clang inserts in the code. I would like to do this
automatically, using the LLVM test infra-structure. However, I am not sure
if that is possible. Could someone tell me which flags in the
TEST.nightly.Makefile script, (or any other script) I must change to have
this done? Usually I insert canaries with the following command line:

$> clang -S -fstack-protector hello.c

But I would like to know which part of LLVM calls the pass that inserts the
canaries. It seems it is llc, as the pass that inserts the canaries is in
/lib/CodeGen/StackProtector.cpp. Yet, I cannot see 'fstack-protector' in
the llc --help list, although I can see 'stack-protector-buffer-size' in
llc --help.

Sincerely,

-- 
Izabela Maffra.

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