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by butteroverflow 2546 days ago
Yeah, you "only" need to avoid undefined behavior. What do we need ASAN/UBSAN for then?

https://github.com/google/sanitizers/

Sure, Google is primarily a C++ shop, you could say that C++ is to blame and it has nothing to do with C.

But why the need for KASAN then? Which has a big track record at this point, by the way.

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There are developers at google (most likely in increasing numbers) that would look like a deer caught in the headlights when asked to work on a C++ part of the code base (anecdotally according to a guy working at Google)