[issue21037] add an AddressSanitizer build option

[Charles-François Natali]

Charles-François Natali added the comment:

I'd like to move this forward: it could IMO be a great way to proactively detect potential security defects, and nasty stack/heap/memory corruption in general.

The remaining - missing - part is buildbot integration: AFAICT the only specific thing to do is to start the process with the ASAN_OPTIONS environment variable set to "handle_segv=0", to avoid interference with faulthandler.

But I'm not really familiar with the buildbot support, so if anyone has a clue...

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nosy: +haypo, pitrou

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