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Checking packages with address sanitizer

3 messages · wokai, Simon Urbanek, Brian Ripley

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I was recently challenged to correct my package source (rbamtools) because
there were issues reported by address sanitizer.
Therefore the problem of installing and running instrumented (R +) package
code arises.

Regrettably up to now, I found no way to use the address sanitizer, neither
for a small C-example nor for a new compiled version of R.
I get missing `__asan_report_store4' or `__asan_report_load4' messages.

I'm working on Ubuntu 13.10 and tried gcc (4.8.1) and clang (3.2-7ubuntu1,
based on LLVM 3.2).

Does anyone have experiance with address sanitizer (especially with a self
compiled R-version which is not in the standard location on the system)?

Thanks in advance
Wolfgang



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On Nov 27, 2013, at 12:36 PM, wokai <wolfgang.kaisers at gmail.com> wrote:

            
You have to compile *both* R and the package using AS flags. In fact, if you setup SA for R it will automatically work for packages. The above seems like you're trying to use AS just for the package, but that cannot work, because it's missing all the AS runtime libraries which must be in the main executable -- i.e. R.

Cheers,
Simon
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On 27/11/2013 18:45, Simon Urbanek wrote:
Actually, it may work (does in gcc 4.8.2 for example), if you *link* the 
package with -faddress=sanitize.

See the current 'Writing R Examples' manual.