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Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC by zzz11 on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:58PM (#22315426)
_FORTIFY_SOURCE is a rather weak but fast mitigation for a narrow class of security issues. AddressSanitizer is a bug finding tool (2x CPU overhead!), for a different and much wider class of issues.

Edit: there is some overlap, of course.

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