configure.ac: add --enable-sanitize option
Enable code sanitizers by adding -fsanitize=$foo flags for the compiler
and linker.
In addition, this also disables checking for undefined symbols: running
the address sanitizer requires additional symbols which should be provided
by a preloaded libasan.so (preloaded for hooking into malloc & friends
globally), and the undefined symbols check gets tripped up by that.
Running the tests works normally via `make check`, but shows additional
failures with the address sanitizer due to memory leaks that seem to be
mostly leaks in the tests themselves. I believe those failures should
really be fixed. In the mean-time, you can set
export ASAN_OPTIONS=detect_leaks=0
to only check for more serious error types.
v2:
- fail reasonably when an unsupported sanitize flag is given (Eric Engestrom)
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Tomczyk <bartosz.tomczyk86@gmail.com> (v1)
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@imgtec.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
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