Re: Clang build with ASAN

[Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2013/8/12 Alexis La Goutte <alexis.lagoutte () gmail com>:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it is now possible to build wireshark with clang (CC=clang ./configure
> > &&
> > > make) (i fix last issue last week end).
> > Great news!
> >
> > > I will try the ASAN feature (
> > > http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html )
> > ASAN is also ported to GCC 4.8.
> > I'm not sure which compiler is more reliable regarding ASAN checks,
> > though.
> >
> > ...
> > > Also may be now add a clang build to buildbot? (no only scan-build)
> > I also wanted to raise the question of adding '-fsanitize=address'  to
> > the C flags.
> > I think fuzzing with ASAN would worth the extra CPU time on buildbots
> > and I'm even considering
> > turning ASAN on in the Debian packages by default.
>
> ASAN is basically a borrowed subset of valgrind, so fuzzing with ASAN is
> not necessary if we can ever get fuzzing with valgrind to work...
>
> ASAN is only 2x slower (valgrind is 20x slower...) and some bugs is only
detect by ASAN...


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