Dear all,
attached is a first draft for -faddress-sanitizer in the release notes.
I am aware that some changes are imminent,* but I want make a start.
Comments?
Tobias
* For instance:
- PowerPC/PowerPC64 Linux support
- Renaming to -fsanitizer=address
- Addition of -fsanitizer=thread
- libsanitizer builds with sparc (but ASAN_SHADOW_SHIFT is missing?)
- Darwin nearly works?
Index: changes.html
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inlining decisions (for example in the case of Fortran
array descriptors) and devirtualization.</li>
</ul></li>
+ <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/";>AddressSanitizer
+ </a>, a fast memory error detector, has been added and can be
+ enabled via <code>-faddress-sanitizer</code>. Memory access
+ instructions will be instrumented to detect out-of-bounds,
+ use-after-free, stack overflow and global overflow bugs. To get
+ nicer stacktraces, use <code>-fno-omit-frame-pointer</code>. The
+ AddressSanitizer is available on IA-32/x86-64/x32 Linux.</li>
</ul>
