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Integrate ASan with MixedArena
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Description
After re-enabling ASan in #2490, we should make it more useful
by integrating with ASan so that it can handle issues inside the
arena. Note that we don't free inside arenas, but it could still
find other bugs.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing issue #2490 and the MixedArena implementation to understand how ASan was re-enabled and how arena storage works. Define how ASan should detect bugs inside the arena, then verify that relevant arena issues are reported by ASan without relying on deallocation.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- compilers, testing
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100