microsoft / microsoft/react-native-windows
Try using ASan (C++ memory bug detector) for RNW
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Area: Performance
enhancement
Workstream: Performance
- Dominant language
- C++
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Description
Address sanitizer is a standard tool for finding memory bugs for Clang/LLVM and now is supported by MSVC as well.
We should evaluate using it and seeing what we learn from it.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/address-sanitizer-for-msvc-now-generally-available/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/sanitizers/asan?view=msvc-160
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
The issue names no files or tests; start by reading the linked MSVC AddressSanitizer documentation and locating RNW's C++ build and test entry points. Done means documenting whether ASan can be enabled for RNW and what memory bugs or limitations the evaluation reveals.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, react-native
- Domain
- testing-qa, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100