address-sanitizer

By Reini Urban (‎rurban‎) from Dresden.pm
Date: Monday, 20 August 2012 15:20
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Advanced
Language: English

address-sanitizer (aka ASan) is a memory error detector for C/C++, superior to valgrind. It comes with clang.

It finds:
* Use after free
* Out-of-bounds accesses to
** heap
** stack
** globals
* Use after return

It is very fast. The average slowdown of the instrumented program is ~2x, it's ~10-20x faster than valgrind. DEBUGGING builds should just use it.
The tool works on x86 Linux and Mac.
How it works, what errors it finds, some tools.