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Re: Request to merge Undefined Behavior Sanitizer in


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:50:14PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 07/25/2013 04:40 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> >On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Marek Polacek wrote:
> >
> >>So far it sanitizes division-by-zeros, shifts and
> >>__builtin_unreachable calls.  This is of course far from being
> >>complete; I intend to write more features during this 4.9 stage.
> >
> >Such as everything needed for it to replace -ftrapv (for -ftrapv to become
> >an alias for an appropriate subset of this option)?
> I'm guessing Marek would probably start with looking to provide
> feature parity with LLVM's -fsanitize=undefined which is defined as:
> 
> -fsanitize=undefined: Fast and compatible undefined behavior
> checker. Enables the undefined behavior checks that have small
> runtime cost and no impact on address space layout or ABI. This
> includes all of the checks listed below other than
> unsigned-integer-overflow.
> 
> So I wouldn't necessarily expect ubsan, at least in the near future,
> to catch the -ftrapv stuff.  Though it's something that might be
> able to be added at some point.

Yeah, exactly.  I expect to get back to -ftrapv after providing
the most useful subset of LLVM's ubsan functionality.

	Marek


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