Re: Leak Sanitizer - how to suppress leaks

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 08:21:38PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> When multiple people are doing leak busting, maybe over years, they
> eliminate many false positives so you can focus on the real issues w/o a
> run time penalty. Especially something in the library that comes up
> often... otherwise they get in the way of making progress...

Instead of adding rarely excercised code in the exit path, I would prefer
to mark the allocation with something special so the sanitizer knows
I intend to never free the result and I am fine with "the leak". It could
still report a summary like "10k in 20 objects allocated and intentionaly
not freed", so if this goes up dramatically we may still notice.

Martin