Package: sanitizers
Type: Package
Title: C/C++ Source Code to Trigger Address and Undefined Behaviour
        Sanitizers
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 2026-09-12
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 <https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki>.
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: 2026-09-12 18:53:33 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/sanitizers
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: a3bf23addb09e4265a74de2e06be61b2c863589b
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-10-12 13:36:35 UTC; root
Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6419-907X>)
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>