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-rw-r--r--docs/devel/fuzzing.txt7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt b/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt
index db5641de74..12bf6aa0ca 100644
--- a/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/fuzzing.txt
@@ -23,9 +23,12 @@ AddressSanitizer mmaps ~20TB of memory, as part of its detection. This results
in a large page-map, and a much slower fork().
To build the fuzzers, install a recent version of clang:
-Configure with (substitute the clang binaries with the version you installed):
+Configure with (substitute the clang binaries with the version you installed).
+Here, enable-sanitizers, is optional but it allows us to reliably detect bugs
+such as out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-frees, double-frees etc.
- CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing
+ CC=clang-8 CXX=clang++-8 /path/to/configure --enable-fuzzing \
+ --enable-sanitizers
Fuzz targets are built similarly to system/softmmu: