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Building Guile 1.8 with AddressSanitizer

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From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
Cc: 19366-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Joshua Rogers <megamansec <at> gmail.com>, request <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19366: Guile
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 21:22:39 +0200

Closing bug.  Joshua any reports of running ASAN on Guile 2.0.11 or
2.1.3 are very welcome; note that we switched to the BDW garbage
collector in the meantime; I don't know if there are best practices for
ASAN and BDW-GC.  See e.g.:

  https://lists.opendylan.org/pipermail/bdwgc/2016-January/006136.html

Regards,

Andy

On Sun 14 Dec 2014 16:44, Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org> writes:

> Joshua Rogers <megamansec <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 14/12/14 02:38, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> However, Guile 1.8 is no longer maintained.
>>>
>>> You could try running Asan on Guile 2.0, which has been the stable
>>> series for a number of years.  Guile 2.0 uses the BDW GC (aka. libgc).
>>> It may similarly raise false positives, but since libgc is widely used,
>>> you might be able find feedback from people who have tried using Asan
>>> with it.
>> Hm, okay. 1.8 is the current version in the Ubuntu repo's, just fyi.
>
> Ubuntu has had Guile 2.0 since Precise 12.04 LTS, but it has a different
> package name: "guile-2.0".
>
>      Regards,
>        Mark

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