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[ASan] Make insertion of version mismatch guard configurable
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Authored by yln on Aug 27 2019, 12:52 PM.

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Summary

By default ASan calls a versioned function
__asan_version_mismatch_check_vXXX to ensure that the compiler ABI
version and runtime ABI version are compatible. This ensures that we get
a predictable linker error instead of hard-to-debug runtime errors.

Sometimes, however, we want to skip this safety guard. This new command
line option allows us to do just that.

rdar://47891956

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yln created this revision.Aug 27 2019, 12:52 PM
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yln added a comment.EditedAug 28 2019, 1:27 PM

Filipe Cabecinhas <filcab+llvm.phabricator@gmail.com>
when might we not want this?

It's useful when partially transitioning a project to a new compiler version or for testing the compiler itself around the time when the version bump is actually done. Sometimes we want to test with a version-bumped compiler with the the non-version-bumped runtime or vice versa.

The flag is not meant to be used by "normal" end users. It's hidden, and we don't change the default.

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