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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by ndesaulniers on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:06PM (#20197893)
Because static analyzers today are imprecise. We're considering where this makes sense to turn on in Android, and even within the Linux kernel.
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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by carlmr on Sunday June 16, 2019 @05:38PM (#20198060)
If you can I would at least advise running tests using memory sanitizer, which is also built in to newer clang versions. They're much more precise, but only catch problems occurring at runtime. also adress sanitizer for the out of bounds accesses, use after free bugs, memory leaks etc.
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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by ndesaulniers on Sunday June 16, 2019 @08:26PM (#20198829)
We do. Also, the people who built msan are literally the ones implementing the initialization patterns.
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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution by carlmr on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @03:27AM (#20210437)
Nice, sorry, I didn't notice you actually meant working on Android.

Great work btw. I've found a few actual bugs with ASan and MSan already. Not once a false positive.

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