http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58841
Bug ID: 58841 Summary: std::bad_alloc not thrown with -fsanitize=address Product: gcc Version: 4.8.1 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: jaak at ristioja dot ee I found this bug after a NULL pointer dereference: // test.cpp int main() { return (new char[8010463299950541741]) != 0; } $ g++-4.8.1 -fsanitize=address test.cpp -o test && ./test ; echo $? ==7913== WARNING: AddressSanitizer failed to allocate 0x6f2ae1ee17dafbad bytes 0 $ g++-4.8.1 test.cpp -o test && ./test ; echo $? terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted 134 $ g++-4.8.1 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++-4.8.1 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Configured with: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.8.1-r1/work/gcc-4.8.1/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.8.1 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/include/g++-v4 --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --with-cloog --disable-isl-version-check --disable-lto --disable-nls --with-system-zlib --enable-obsolete --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --enable-multilib --with-multilib-list=m32,m64 --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.1/python --enable-checking=release --disable-libgcj --enable-libstdcxx-time --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-targets=all --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion='Gentoo 4.8.1-r1 p1.2, pie-0.5.7' Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.1 (Gentoo 4.8.1-r1 p1.2, pie-0.5.7)