7 engineers on Hacker News describe using AddressSanitizer first-hand: 6 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We run unit tests with ASAN. Good test coverage gives us good confidence in safety.”
endorse · production · inetknght · 2023-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My team runs ASAN in production... And it's been a huge help to us.”
endorse · production · scottlamb · 2019-05-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“fuzzing and address sanitization found about as many security issues as were found by all other techniques in the last 10 years”
endorse · production · adekok · 2017-07-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This week I put it through asan and found five buffer overflows or similar with about a half hour of work”
endorse · production · dietrichepp · 2015-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“ASAN hugely decreases cost per test cycle (and therefore cost per bug, without changing fuzzers).”
endorse · production · xyzzy123 · 2012-11-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use an address sanitizer in tests but not in production.”
neutral · production · hot_gril · 2023-02-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?