new-op.c: Add comment about -fsanitize=address

gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-10-25  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* common/new-op.c: Add comment about -fsanitize=address.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 40fab9b..c2a8579 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2016-10-25  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
 
+       * common/new-op.c: Add comment about -fsanitize=address.
+
+2016-10-25  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>
+
        * common/common-defs.h (__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS)
        (__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS): Define.
 

diff --git a/gdb/common/new-op.c b/gdb/common/new-op.c
index f04c5cb..1eb4f94 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/common/new-op.c
+++ b/gdb/common/new-op.c
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@
    new-handler function instead (std::set_new_handler) because we want
    to catch allocation errors from within global constructors too.
 
+   Skip overriding if building with -fsanitize=address though.
+   Address sanitizer wants to override operator new/delete too in
+   order to detect malloc+delete and new+free mismatches.  Our
+   versions would mask out ASan's, with the result of losing that
+   useful mismatch detection.
+
    Note that C++ implementations could either have their throw
    versions call the nothrow versions (libstdc++), or the other way
    around (clang/libc++).  For that reason, we replace both throw and