Subject: bug#42657: emacs-27.1-rc1 and Asan findings

From: Jeffrey Walton <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 16:34:53 -0400

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 4:32 PM Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Am Sa., 1. Aug. 2020 um 22:24 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton <[email-masked]>:
> >
> > I don't have log files for Asan testing. The process is killed before
> > the log file gets written.
> >
> > I think just about every test failed similar to:
> >
> > =================================================================
> > ==18430==ERROR: LeakSanitizer: detected memory leaks
>
>
> Emacs intentionally leaks a lot of memory (like every system with a
> GC), so those tend to be false positives. If they still happen on
> master, consider suppressing them using __lsan_ignore_object or
> similar.

How does one tell the good leaks from the bad leaks?

Jeff