On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Konstantin Serebryany <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 9:01 AM Seshadri R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to use address sanitizer to profile a program (say A). However, >> this program is launched as a child of another process (B). I have built the >> executable for A using the compiler flags : >> -fsanitize=address -static-libasan >> >> and linked the process using the flags >> -fsanitize=address -static-libasan -lasan. > > > You should never need -lasan. > If any piece of documentation tells you to use -lasan, please let us know, > we need to remove that.
Most people pick it up from stackoverflow or blogposts... > -fsanitize=address at both compile and link-time should be sufficient. > -static-libasan is optional. > > >> >> >> However, when I launch Process A as a subprocess of process B, I am not >> getting any errors or warnings. > > > Maybe your program doesn't have bugs? > >> >> >> How do I get the memory leaks in process A using Address Sanitizer? > > > Are you only looking for memory leaks or for other types of bugs too? > Unlike most other kinds of bugs, memory leaks are reported when the process > is exiting, > see https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LeakSanitizer.html > >> >> >> Thanks and Regards >> Seshadri >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "address-sanitizer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "address-sanitizer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "address-sanitizer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
