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| In Subzero, AddressSanitizer depends on being able to find and instrument calls |
| to various functions such as malloc() and free(), and as such the .pexe file |
| -being translated must not have had those symbols stripped. Subzero will not |
| -complain if it is told to translate a .pexe file with its symbols stripped, but |
| -it will not be able to find calls to malloc() and free(), so AddressSanitizer |
| -will not work correctly in the final executable. |
| +being translated must not have had those symbols stripped or inlined. Subzero |
| +will not complain if it is told to translate a .pexe file with its symbols |
| +stripped, but it will not be able to find calls to malloc(), calloc(), free(), |
| +etc., so AddressSanitizer will not work correctly in the final executable. |
| + |
| +Furthermore, pnacl-clang automatically inlines calls to calloc(), even with |
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Karl
2016/07/14 17:33:50
s/calls/some calls/?
Do you know it does this to
tlively
2016/07/14 20:26:14
Done.
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| +inlining turned off, so we provide a wrapper script, sz-clang.py, that normally |
| +just passes its arguments through to pnacl-clang, but adds instrumentation to |
| +replace calls to calloc() at the source level if it is passed |
| +-fsanitize-address. |
| These are the steps to compile hello.c to an instrumented object file:: |
| - pnacl-clang -o hello.nonfinal.pexe hello.c |
| + sz-clang.py -fno-inline -fsanitize-address -o hello.nonfinal.pexe hello.c |
| pnacl-finalize --no-strip-syms -o hello.pexe hello.nonfinal.pexe |
| pnacl-sz -fsanitize-address -filetype=obj -o hello.o hello.pexe |