This repository contains scripts and sample programs to test various memory sanitizers.

The test process goes in three steps:

1. run ./build.sh to compile the sample programs.
2. run ./test.sh to run the compiled programs with the sanitizers.
3. run ./format-logs.sh to display the test results in a nice format.

Pass --help to any script to get more details. Pipe the output of ./format-logs.sh to disable the fancy output.

All tested programs either contain an intentional memory access error, which should be detected by the sanitizer, or an operation known to be detected as a false positive by some tools.

The tested sanitizers are:

• Address Sanitizer, enabled via the -fsanitize=address of either GCC or Clang (whichever is the default compiler).
• Memory Sanitizer, enabled via the -fsanitize=memory of Clang.
• Valgrind,
• Intel Inspector, from version 2016 to 2020.

The versions of Inspector are expected to be installed in $HOME/intel/$year.

See the results