Merge pull request #703 from mantidproject/11187_threadsanitizer

AddressSanitizer

Code/Mantid/Build/CMake/GNUSetup.cmake

@@ -37,9 +37,19 @@ endif()
 set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} -fno-omit-frame-pointer" )
 set( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG} -fno-omit-frame-pointer" )
 
+option(WITH_ASAN "Enable address sanitizer" OFF)
+if(WITH_ASAN)
+  message(STATUS "enabling address sanitizer")
+  add_compile_options(-fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-common -fsanitize=address)
+  set(CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS} -fsanitize=address -lasan" )
+  set(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} -fsanitize=address -lasan" )
+  set(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS} -fsanitize=address -lasan" )
+endif()
+
 # Set the options for gcc and g++
 set( CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} ${GNUFLAGS}" )
 # -Wno-overloaded-virtual is down here because it's not applicable to the C_FLAGS
 set( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} ${GNUFLAGS} -Woverloaded-virtual -fno-operator-names -std=c++0x" )
+
 # Cleanup
 set ( GNUFLAGS )

Code/Mantid/Framework/Kernel/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -397,8 +397,12 @@ set_property ( TARGET Kernel PROPERTY FOLDER "MantidFramework" )
 if ( GCC_COMPILER_VERSION AND GCC_COMPILER_VERSION VERSION_LESS "4.5" )
  target_link_libraries ( Kernel stdc++ )
 endif()
-target_link_libraries ( Kernel ${NEXUS_LIBRARIES} ${MANTIDLIBS} ${GSL_LIBRARIES}
-                        ${NETWORK_LIBRARIES} ${JSONCPP_LIBRARIES} )
+target_link_libraries ( Kernel ${NEXUS_LIBRARIES} ${MANTIDLIBS} ${GSL_LIBRARIES} 
+                        ${NETWORK_LIBRARIES} ${JSONCPP_LIBRARIES})
+if (WITH_ASAN)
+  target_link_libraries ( Kernel -lasan )
+endif ()
+
 if ( WIN32 )
   target_link_libraries ( Kernel Psapi.lib ) # For memory usage queries
 endif()

Code/Mantid/MantidPlot/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -890,6 +890,11 @@ target_link_libraries ( MantidPlot
                         ${PYTHON_LIBRARIES}
                         ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES}
 )
+
+if (WITH_ASAN)
+  target_link_libraries ( MantidPlot -lasan )
+endif ()
+
 # Plugin dependencies
 add_dependencies( MantidPlot mantidqtpython )