On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Kuba Brecka <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to propose turning on the ASan runtime flag "abort_on_error" by
> default on OS X. The main reason for that is crash logs: on OS X, crash
> reports are stored for all crashes, but ASan currently makes the program
> exit(1) by default, which is not a crash. This can make you completely miss
> some ASan report, especially in cases where you don't directly look at the
> console output (you're logging into a file or something).
Will ASan reports be stored along with the crash reports
automatically? If no, can we fix that somehow?

> I know there's some downsides of that, for example that crashes generate
> core dumps which are huge with ASan - therefore I'm only proposing this for
> OS X where we don't generate core dumps by default. Another thing that I'm
> aware of is the ASan test suite, which would generate hundreds of crash logs
> (that's undesirable) and run much slower, so we would probably need to
> disable abort_on_error for it.
It's possible to unmap the shadow before generating the core dump,
that shouldn't be a huge problem.

> Regardless of these, it still seems to me that abort_on_error=1 is a more
> logical default value than the current default. Is there a strong reason
> against that?
I don't see any strong reasons.
> Thanks,
> Kuba
>
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