Add a new target for AddressSanitizer as extra credit
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- cmake, cpp
- Domain
- build-system, documentation, testing-qa
Research direction
Review the existing C-track AddressSanitizer target, then inspect each exercise's CMakeLists to determine how the equivalent test target should be added. Update the “Running the Tests” documentation to explain the ASan check as extra credit; completion means every exercise supports the target and the documentation describes how to use it.
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Description
One of the things we do in the C track is have a separate compilation target for validating memory accesses, which we do using AddressSanitizer. We should implement a similar check here by adding a new target into each exercise's CMakeLists to run the tests under ASan, and document that to describe it as extra credit for the students in the 'Running the Tests' doc page.
Possibly add a build with MemorySanitizer as well to track uninitialized reads, but ASan is generally more useful.
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- C++
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