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MSVC Address Sanitizer updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13
We have been investing in the quality of MSVC Address Sanitizer (ASan) in several key areas over the past year, including working with LLVM upstream to stay coordinated with their changes, adding coverage for internal tools and libraries, and hardening APIs and runtime modes. Upstreaming to LLVM MSVC ASan is derived from a fork of […]
We have been investing in the quality of MSVC Address Sanitizer (ASan) in several key areas over the past year, including working with LLVM upstream to stay coordinated with their changes, adding coverage for internal tools and libraries, and hardening APIs and runtime modes. We have recently been able to focus on adopting ASan into the MSVC codebase, which means building the compiler, linker, code analysis tools, and runtime libraries for testing with/fsanitize=address. This effort allows us to run thousands of regression test scenarios with ASan enabled on each pull request, blocking developers from merging any newly introduced memory safety errors.
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