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

From: Philipp Stephani <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2020 22:31:55 +0200

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.