Re: [Kicad-developers] Pushback on bug 1838448

2019-08-02 Thread Andrew Zonenberg
Hiding memory access errors is a terrible idea from both a security and software reliability perspective. IMO we should be moving in the opposite direction and adding -fsanitize=address to debug builds. On 8/2/19 8:25 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote: > I asked on the Fedora development list about removi

[Kicad-developers] Pushback on bug 1838448

2019-08-02 Thread Steven A. Falco
I asked on the Fedora development list about removing the "-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS" flag as requested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1838448, and I got some pushback (attached) stating that it is not a good idea to hide crashes caused by out-of-bounds memory accesses. I agree with