Package: sanitizers Type: Package Title: C/C++ Source Code to Trigger Address and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizers Version: 0.1.1 Date: 2023-06-11 Authors@R: person("Dirk", "Eddelbuettel", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "edd@debian.org", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6419-907X")) Description: Recent gcc and clang compiler versions provide functionality to test for memory violations and other undefined behaviour; this is often referred to as "Address Sanitizer" (or 'ASAN') and "Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer" ('UBSAN'). The Writing R Extension manual describes this in some detail in Section 4.3 title "Checking Memory Access". . This feature has to be enabled in the corresponding binary, eg in R, which is somewhat involved as it also required a current compiler toolchain which is not yet widely available, or in the case of Windows, not available at all (via the common Rtools mechanism). . As an alternative, pre-built Docker containers such as the Rocker container 'r-devel-san' or the multi-purpose container 'r-debug' can be used. . This package then provides a means of testing the compiler setup as the known code failures provides in the sample code here should be detected correctly, whereas a default build of R will let the package pass. . The code samples are based on the examples from the Address Sanitizer Wiki at . License: GPL (>= 2) URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/sanitizers, https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/sanitizers.html BugReports: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/sanitizers/issues Repository: https://eddelbuettel.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-02-11 23:25:10 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/sanitizers RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 9f21abd4eaafc62d002a559f6b7bdfbe5aaa07c3 NeedsCompilation: yes Packaged: 2026-07-12 06:27:47 UTC; root Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre] (ORCID: ) Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel