http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56393
--- Comment #19 from Kostya Serebryany <kcc at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-02-22 07:01:51 UTC --- In clang, static asan-rt is the default and the only option on Linux. (On Mac, the only option is dynamic, but that's a quite unfortunate limitation of the platform, it costs us quite a bit of pain during deployment). I would also prefer to have static as the default on gcc-linux (for both asan and tsan). In regular cases, when you build your own program static is what you need. There is one case where we do need dynamic asan-rt and we build it separately: C++ code called via SWIG from a python program. We already have the pre-built python binary and can not link anything to it statically. But the deployment is rather painful here too, it would have been much simpler if we could link asan-rt to python statically.
