Hello, Please review the following patch which adds support for AddressSanitizer.
AddressSanitizer is a runtime memory error detector which looks for various memory corruption issues and leaks.
Please refer to [1] for details. AddressSanitizer is available in gcc 4.8+ and clang 3.1+
The patch below introduces --enable-asan parameter for the configure script which enables AddressSanitizer.
Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189800 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~asmotrak/8189800/webrev.00/ [1] https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer Artem
