What is address here?
@opaque bison In case you are okay with continuing the convo here
#Asan
finite gulch
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finite gulch
opaque bison
Like I said before, "address" here is just the name
nothing important
But the tool as a whole will help you catch all sorts of issues
finite gulch
Like I said before, "address" here is just the name
From my perspective, I have no idea what I am naming here.
And address is indicating additional functionality
opaque bison
the name of the tool -ASan - "address sanitizer"
I'm not quite sure why you think it's important unless there's something else I'm missing
long valve
it sanitizes for invalid memory accesses
opaque bison
for reference, the tool that looks for undefined behavior is called "UBsan" - undefined behavior sanitizer
long valve
it does that by tracking which addresses are valid addresses.
in other words, it sanitizes how your program uses addresses.
i.e.: it's an address sanitizer.
finite gulch
We have a lot here. sp, bp, pc
long valve
I have no idea what you mean
finite gulch
I'm referring to the abbrevations.
long valve
I'll need some context
finite gulch
I just commented on it, let's drop that, never mind about it.
I guess what's more imporntant is, why does these 00's represent the array? Is this before or after the array being written to?
opaque bison
It's showing the memory around the faulty access
the exact address that was accessed incorrectly is in [...]
finite gulch
It's showing the memory around the faulty access
How do you mean?
opaque bison
It's just a helpful tool that you may not need
If you make an invalid memory access (like trying to use a pointer after it was freed for example), it will catch it, then show you the values of the bytes at the location you tried accessing as a debug tool
So for example, if there was some data there you could maybe trace back where you got the invalid pointer from