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Re: Pushback on bug 1838448

 

Hiding memory access errors is a terrible idea from both a security and
software reliability perspective. IMO we should be moving in the
opposite direction and adding -fsanitize=address to debug builds.

On 8/2/19 8:25 AM, Steven A. Falco wrote:
> I asked on the Fedora development list about removing the "-Wp,-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS" flag as requested in https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1838448, and I got some pushback (attached) stating that it is not a good idea to hide crashes caused by out-of-bounds memory accesses.
> 
> I agree with that, and I made a similar argument in comment #22 of the bug.
> 
> Therefore I'd like to have more discussion about this.  Are we really sure we want to hide memory access errors?  In some cases they could cause hard-to-find corruption bugs, as well as hard crashes.  Personally, I'd rather know there is a problem.
> 
> 	Steve
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