Document how to configure using asan (bootstrap-asan option).
Since I'm adding a bootstrap-hwasan option and documenting that,
bootstrap-asan should also be documented.
(As Martin pointed out in the hwasan reviews).
(FYI I now notice that my hwasan patch 3/X needs this to apply cleanly).
gcc/ChangeLog:
2019-12-12 Matthew Malcomson <matthew.malcom...@arm.com>
* doc/install.texi: Document bootstrap-asan configuration option.
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commit 6e0bbe33120ad3f92e4266ecfe4ecb8ce8958865
Author: Matthew Malcomson <matthew.malcom...@arm.com>
Date: Wed Nov 6 12:48:08 2019 +0000
Document bootstrap-asan compilation option
diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index 80b4781..c5937c9 100644
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -2670,6 +2670,14 @@ the build tree.
@end table
+Some examples of build configurations designed for developers of GCC are:
+
+@table @asis
+@item @samp{bootstrap-asan}
+Compiles GCC itself using Address Sanitization in order to catch
invalid memory
+accesses within the GCC code.
+@end table
+
@section Building a cross compiler
When building a cross compiler, it is not generally possible to do a
