Re: Google Address Sanitizer

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Google has developed and makes available a tool for C++ developers,
> and I wondered if it might be of interest to the Lilypond devels.
> From the website: "AddressSanitizer (ASan) is a fast memory error
> detector.  It finds use-after-free and out-of-bound bugs in C/C++
> programs."
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/

I haven't used it by myself, but I recently received a bunch of bug
reports for FreeType which have been found by this tool.  At least one
feature makes it unique, AFAIK: it can detect out-of-bounds errors
while accessing static arrays, something valgrind doesn't notice.


   Werner