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Google Open-Sources GWPSan As A New Sanitizer Framework

Google is known for their many contributions to open-source compilers and particular many different sanitizer efforts over the years

"GWPSan is a framework for low-overhead sampling-based dynamic binary instrumentation, designed for implementing various bug detectors (also called "sanitizers") suitable for production uses. This sampling-based sanitizer framework is separate from GWP-ASan as a lower-overhead alternative to LLVM's AddressSanitizer (ASAN). GWPSan does depend upon the Bazel build system, supports various tunable flags with otherwise off by default behavior, and is under an Apache license.

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