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author | mpolacek <mpolacek@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2013-11-18 19:25:33 +0000 |
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committer | mpolacek <mpolacek@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4> | 2013-11-18 19:25:33 +0000 |
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* doc/invoke.texi: Extend -fsanitize=undefined documentation.
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diff --git a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi index a3fdbb5510d..8855fb74cf3 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/invoke.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/invoke.texi @@ -5260,9 +5260,44 @@ data race bugs. See @uref{http://code.google.com/p/data-race-test/wiki/ThreadSanitizer} for more details. @item -fsanitize=undefined -Enable UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, a fast undefined behavior detector +Enable UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, a fast undefined behavior detector. Various computations will be instrumented to detect undefined behavior -at runtime, e.g.@: division by zero or various overflows. +at runtime. Current suboptions are: + +@itemize @bullet + +@item @option{-fsanitize=shift} + +This option enables checking that the result of a shift operation is +not undefined. Note that what exactly is considered undefined differs +slightly between C and C++, as well as between ISO C90 and C99, etc. + +@item @option{-fsanitize=integer-divide-by-zero} + +Detect integer division by zero as well as @code{INT_MIN / -1} division. + +@item @option{-fsanitize=unreachable} + +With this option, the compiler will turn the @code{__builtin_unreachable} +call into a diagnostics message call instead. When reaching the +@code{__builtin_unreachable} call, the behavior is undefined. + +@item @option{-fsanitize=vla-bound} + +This option instructs the compiler to check that the size of a variable +length array is positive. This option does not have any effect in +@option{-std=c++1y} mode, as the standard requires the exception be thrown +instead. + +@item @option{-fsanitize=null} + +This option enables pointer checking. Particularly, the application +built with this option turned on will issue an error message when it +tries to dereference a NULL pointer, or if a reference (possibly an +rvalue reference) is bound to a NULL pointer. + +@end itemize + While @option{-ftrapv} causes traps for signed overflows to be emitted, @option{-fsanitize=undefined} gives a diagnostic message. This currently works only for the C family of languages. |