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diff --git a/llvm_mode/README.whitelist.md b/llvm_mode/README.whitelist.md index 5aededba..6a5770c2 100644 --- a/llvm_mode/README.whitelist.md +++ b/llvm_mode/README.whitelist.md @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ the compiler. The environment variable must point to a file containing all the filenames that should be instrumented. For matching, the filename that is being compiled -must end in the filename contained in this whitelist (to avoid breaking the -matching when absolute paths are used during compilation). +must end in the filename entry contained in this whitelist (to avoid breaking +the matching when absolute paths are used during compilation). For example if your source tree looks like this: @@ -47,14 +47,14 @@ project/feature_b/b1.cpp project/feature_b/b2.cpp ``` -And you only want to test feature_a, then create a whitelist file containing: +and you only want to test feature_a, then create a whitelist file containing: ``` feature_a/a1.cpp feature_a/a2.cpp ``` -However if the whitelist file contains this, it works as well: +However if the whitelist file contains only this, it works as well: ``` a1.cpp @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ a2.cpp ``` but it might lead to files being unwantedly instrumented if the same filename -exists somewhere else in the project. +exists somewhere else in the project directories. The created whitelist file is then set to AFL_INST_WHITELIST when you compile your program. For each file that didn't match the whitelist, the compiler will @@ -72,4 +72,4 @@ didn't intend to instrument that file, then you can safely ignore that warning. For old LLVM versions this feature might require to be compiled with debug information (-g), however at least from llvm version 6.0 onwards this is not required anymore (and might hurt performance and crash detection, so better not -use -g) +use -g). |