From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, vibhavp@gmail.com
Subject: Re: feature/asan-gc-poisoning 5c653d3ec9: Add support for additional memory checks using AddressSanitizer.
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:41:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a648lfub.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h6yhujha.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:58:09 +0800)
> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:58:09 +0800
>
> Vibhav Pant <vibhavp@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Add support for additional memory checks using AddressSanitizer.
> >
> > When Emacs is compiled with AddressSanitizer support, enable
> > poisoning/unpoisoning freed/unused Lisp objects and other internal
> > memory management structures. If enabled, this will mark freed bytes
> > that have been put on free lists for future use, and initially
> > allocated memory blocks/chunks as "poisoned", triggering an ASan error
> > if they are accessed improperly. Structures are unpoisoned when they
> > have been taken off their respective free lists.
To be more useful, this should be mentioned in etc/DEBUG, where we describe
how to build and run Emacs with memory-debugging facilities.
Thanks.
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