See https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/issues/detail?id=299 for the
original feature request.
Introduce llvm.asan.globals metadata, which Clang (or any other frontend)
may use to report extra information about global variables to ASan
instrumentation pass in the backend. This metadata replaces
llvm.asan.dynamically_initialized_globals that was used to detect init-order
bugs. llvm.asan.globals contains the following data for each global:
1) source location (file/line/column info);
2) whether it is dynamically initialized;
3) whether it is blacklisted (shouldn't be instrumented).
Source location data is then emitted in the binary and can be picked up
by ASan runtime in case it needs to print error report involving some global.
For example:
0x... is located 4 bytes to the right of global variable 'C::array' defined in '/path/to/file:17:8' (0x...) of size 40
These source locations are printed even if the binary doesn't have any
debug info.
This is an ABI-breaking change. ASan initialization is renamed to
__asan_init_v4(). Pre-built libraries compiled with older Clang will not work
with the fresh runtime.
llvm-svn: 212188
Init-order and use-after-return modes can currently be enabled
by runtime flags. use-after-scope mode is not really working at the
moment.
The only problem I see is that users won't be able to disable extra
instrumentation for init-order and use-after-scope by a top-level Clang flag.
But this instrumentation was implicitly enabled for quite a while and
we didn't hear from users hurt by it.
llvm-svn: 210924
Clang knows about the sanitizer blacklist and it makes no sense to
add global to the list of llvm.asan.dynamically_initialized_globals if it
will be blacklisted in the instrumentation pass anyway. Instead, we should
do as much blacklisting as possible (if not all) in the frontend.
llvm-svn: 209789
Alexey Samsonov