Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v3 00/53] Misc changes for 2017-01-12

[Peter Maydell]

On 16 January 2018 at 13:41, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 16/01/2018 13:06, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> ASAN is enabled by default if available when --enable-debug. We could
>>> add more flags if that helps.
>> Configure switches should work like this:
>>  * default: use feature if present, but don't complain if not present
>>    or not usable
>>  * --enable-foo: use feature. if feature not present, complain and
>>    fail configure
>>  * --disable-foo: don't test for or use feature
>>
>
> However, --enable-debug has never worked like this (the "default" part)...

True, but -g, no optimization isn't really something we want to
default to :-) I think the general principle that unless the user
specifically said they cared about the address sanitizer we shouldn't
complain if it happens not to work on this host is still a good one.

thanks
-- PMM