RFR [10] 8189800: Add support for AddressSanitizer

[Artem Smotrakov]

cc'ing hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net as David suggested.

Artem


On 10/27/2017 11:02 PM, Artem Smotrakov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review the following patch which adds support for 
> AddressSanitizer.
>
> AddressSanitizer is a runtime memory error detector which looks for 
> various memory corruption issues and leaks.
>
> Please refer to [1] for details. AddressSanitizer is available in gcc 
> 4.8+ and clang 3.1+
>
> The patch below introduces --enable-asan parameter for the configure 
> script which enables AddressSanitizer.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8189800
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~asmotrak/8189800/webrev.00/
>
> [1] https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer
>
> Artem