[llvm-dev] -sanitizer-coverage-prune-blocks=true and LibFuzzer

[Kostya Serebryany via llvm-dev]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:

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> On Sep 21, 2016, at 1:25 PM, Kostya Serebryany <kcc at google.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com>
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>> On Sep 21, 2016, at 12:56 PM, Kostya Serebryany <kcc at google.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Sep 21, 2016, at 9:36 AM, Kostya Serebryany via llvm-dev <
>>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>>> Exciting!
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>>> (btw, I'd prefer libfuzzer at googlegroups.com for such discussions,
>>> please start new topics there)
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>>> You mean a LLVM library has a separate mailing-list? Why?
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>> Because the topic is very separate.
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>> Can you clarify?
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>> I thought is was about the development/debug/evolution/usability of
>> http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Fuzzer/
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> Yes, and this topic is substantially different from most other topics
> discussed on llvm-dev.
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> How so? If discussion on the development of a LLVM sub-library does not
> belong to llvm-dev, I wonder if the library belong to LLVM in the first
> place (add to this that libFuzzer does not use anything else in LLVM…).
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There are users of libFuzzer that don't know much about LLVM and don't
need/want to.
They may want to subscribe to a mailing list that talks precisely about the
topic they want.

(I will clearly happy to answer any user on this, or any other maliing
list, if I see such message.


> We also have separate maliing lists for asan/tsan/msan
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> Is it for more anything else than historical reasons?
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Not only. there are asan/tsan users that don't use nor depend on LLVM.
 (not true for msan though)

Please stop discussing this topic here -- we already hijacked the thread
from Jonas.
If you have further concerns, please start a new thread.

--kcc



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