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authorPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2016-10-25 13:32:26 +0100
committerPedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>2016-10-25 13:32:26 +0100
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new-op.c: Add comment about -fsanitize=address
gdb/ChangeLog: 2016-10-25 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> * common/new-op.c: Add comment about -fsanitize=address.
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diff --git a/gdb/common/new-op.c b/gdb/common/new-op.c
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@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@
new-handler function instead (std::set_new_handler) because we want
to catch allocation errors from within global constructors too.
+ Skip overriding if building with -fsanitize=address though.
+ Address sanitizer wants to override operator new/delete too in
+ order to detect malloc+delete and new+free mismatches. Our
+ versions would mask out ASan's, with the result of losing that
+ useful mismatch detection.
+
Note that C++ implementations could either have their throw
versions call the nothrow versions (libstdc++), or the other way
around (clang/libc++). For that reason, we replace both throw and