[PATCH v4 9/9] NEWS: Add a new feature sampling-asan

Sung-hun Kim sfoon.kim@samsung.com
Thu Nov 6 01:44:26 GMT 2025


Signed-off-by: Sung-hun Kim <sfoon.kim@samsung.com>
---
 NEWS | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ffc7df286..210172d11b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Major new features:
   arguments to support expressions with a comma inside a compound
   literal initializer not surrounded by parentheses.
 
+* A new memory debugging feature, sampling-asan, has been added.
+  Sampling-asan provides a sampling-based address sanitization.
+  [m|r|c]alloc_sanitize and free_sanitize calls are added in malloc-debug.c
+  and they forward [m|r|c]alloc and free calls to sampling-asan. To use
+  sampling-asan, pass "MALLOC_SANITIZE_=sampling-asan" as an environment
+  variable.
+
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
 * Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
-- 
2.25.1



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