Vratko Polak c142cd115b docs: mention how to build VPP outside git
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Change-Id: Iceee9ef489f7f68049882651bb338311295ca12d
Signed-off-by: Vratko Polak <vrpolak@cisco.com>
2023-09-13 13:37:22 +00:00

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.. _sanitizer:
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Google Sanitizers
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VPP is instrumented to support `Google Sanitizers <https://github.com/google/sanitizers>`_.
As of today, only `AddressSanitizer <https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer>`_
is supported, both for GCC and clang.
AddressSanitizer
================
`AddressSanitizer <https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer>`_ (aka ASan) is a memory
error detector for C/C++. Think Valgrind but much faster.
In order to use it, VPP must be recompiled with ASan support.
See developer documentation on prerequisites for :ref:`building VPP <building>`.
ASan support is implemented as a cmake build option,
so all VPP targets should be supported. For example:
.. code-block:: console
# build a debug image with ASan support:
$ make rebuild VPP_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS=-DVPP_ENABLE_SANITIZE_ADDR=ON
....
# build a release image with ASan support:
$ make rebuild-release VPP_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS=-DVPP_ENABLE_SANITIZE_ADDR=ON
....
# build packages in debug mode with ASan support:
$ make pkg-deb-debug VPP_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS=-DVPP_ENABLE_SANITIZE_ADDR=ON
....
# run GBP plugin tests in debug mode with ASan
$ make test-debug TEST=test_gbp VPP_EXTRA_CMAKE_ARGS=-DVPP_ENABLE_SANITIZE_ADDR=ON
....
Once VPP has been built with ASan support you can use it as usual including
under gdb:
.. code-block:: console
$ gdb --args $PWD/build-root/install-vpp_debug-native/vpp/bin/vpp "unix { interactive }"
....