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AddressSanitizer

AddressSanitizer is a memory error detector for C/C++, it is a part of LLVM starting with version 3.1 and of GCC starting with version 4.8.
Read article An Introduction to Google’s Memory Error Detect Tool AddressSanitizer.
And: AddressSanitizer for Windows: x64 and Debug Build Support.

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PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac

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Visual Studio support

Supported in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 and higher.

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Faster than Valgrind

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Slow down

Program slowdown to two times only on average.

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Uses memory

AddressSanitizer uses more real and stack memory.

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AddressSanitizer is a memory error detector for C/C++, it is a part of LLVM starting with version 3.1 and of GCC starting with version 4.8.

Used by Chrome and Firefox

Visual Studio support

Faster than Valgrind

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