[PATCH 1/7] sampling-asan: A sampling-based address sanitization for on-line memory bug detection
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Mon Sep 22 07:50:36 GMT 2025
* Sung-hun Kim:
> This patch introduces sampling-asan, a lightweight implementation of
> address sanitization (ASan) designed to reduce performance overhead of
> ASan. ASan implementation imposes significant performance overhead,
> discouraging developers from using ASan to verify their codes. As a
> result, developers use ASan only after a memory bug is discovered.
It's not clear to me what the external interface to this code is. Is it
just environment variables? Or something more? What is the purpose of
the GLIBC_PRIVATE exports?
Thanks,
Florian
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