[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 20:45:09 EDT 2019


On 7/12/19 8:10 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-07-11, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 7/11/19 1:43 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> AddressSanitizer will hopefully work on x86-64 VMS as well.
>>>
>>
>> That is not a change to the compiler.  Lint used to point
>> out a lot of potential problems but I knew few people other
>> than myself who ever actually used it.  If the compiler
>> lets it bad code will continue to come out of the mill.
>>
> 
> Huh ?
> 
> AddressSanitizer is part of both the gcc and clang compilers and
> its behaviour and use is controlled by compiler options used along
> with the other compiler options you specify while compiling something.
> 
> Simon.
> 


Sorry, I  had no idea what AddressSanitizer was but it sounded like
something you got and ran externally.  If it's built into GCC it
isn't obvious based on some of the code I have seen generated.

bill




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