Enabling Address Sanitizer results in error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'annotate_vector': value '0' doesn't match value '1'

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Enabling Address Sanitizer results in error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'annotate_vector': value '0' doesn't match value '1'

Mark Hastings 36

Never had this problem with ASAN in VS 2019, but with the current latest VS 2022 17.2.2 release I have enabled ASAN for all my C++ projects and encounter this linker error when linking in other "prebuilt" C++ libraries that were not compiled with -fsanitize=address, such as boost:

libboost_thread-vc143-mt-x64-1_79.lib(thread.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'annotate_vector': value '0' doesn't match value '1' in ApplicationInfo.obj
   Creating library C:\source\Windows\x64\Release\XYZ.lib and object C:\source\Windows\x64\Release\XYZ.exp
C:\source\Windows\x64\Release\XYZ.dll : fatal error LNK1319: 1 mismatches detected
Done building project "XYZ.vcxproj" -- FAILED.

Is there some new requirement that all code must be built with ASAN enabled? That would severely limit its usefulness.

Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2022-05-26T05:17:41.037+00:00

It seems that <vector> cannot be included into components that are compiled with different options, but it is probably possible to disable the linker verification by adding the _DISABLE_VECTOR_ANNOTATION definition.

See also: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/sanitizers/error-container-overflow.
Roberto Turrado Camblor 6 Reputation points

2022-06-05T23:43:31.99+00:00
Thanks @Mark Hastings for reporting the issue; I was experiencing the same one.

And thanks @Viorel for pointing to solutions.

I'll log here what worked for me in order to build each project by using /fsanitize=address and annotations enabled, as indicated in the link above, while working on a CMake project depending on external libraries:

add the following lines,

at the top level CMakeLists.txt file, and

before the first call to add_subdirectory.

Note ASAN_ENABLED is an option; in this case, I defined it in a CMakePresets.json test configuration. if(ASAN_ENABLED)
string(REGEX REPLACE "/RTC(su|[1su])" "" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
message(STATUS "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS: ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}\n")
add_compile_options(-fsanitize=address)
endif()
Roshan M R 5 Reputation points

2023-09-02T10:52:32.5433333+00:00

I too have the same error while building LMMS on MSVC (I'm working on a PR that enables ASAN support). One of the plugins errors on my system (msvc build tools 2022). The CI doesn't detect it though because it uses msvc 2019.

But in my case, it's with 'annotate_string'

libstk.lib(Stk.cpp.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'annotate_string': value '0' doesn't match value '1' in Mallets.obj [D:\BuildAndGit\lmms\build\plugins\Stk\Mallets\malletsstk.vcxproj]

libstk is acquired via vcpkg. It is used for a plugin called mallets.

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Viorel 122.6K Reputation points

2022-05-26T05:17:41.037+00:00

It seems that <vector> cannot be included into components that are compiled with different options, but it is probably possible to disable the linker verification by adding the _DISABLE_VECTOR_ANNOTATION definition.

See also: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/sanitizers/error-container-overflow.
Roberto Turrado Camblor 6 Reputation points

2022-06-05T23:43:31.99+00:00

Thanks @Mark Hastings for reporting the issue; I was experiencing the same one.

And thanks @Viorel for pointing to solutions.

I'll log here what worked for me in order to build each project by using /fsanitize=address and annotations enabled, as indicated in the link above, while working on a CMake project depending on external libraries:

add the following lines,

at the top level CMakeLists.txt file, and

before the first call to add_subdirectory.

Note ASAN_ENABLED is an option; in this case, I defined it in a CMakePresets.json test configuration. if(ASAN_ENABLED)
string(REGEX REPLACE "/RTC(su|[1su])" "" CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
message(STATUS "CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS: ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}\n")
add_compile_options(-fsanitize=address)
endif()
Roshan M R 5 Reputation points

2023-09-02T10:52:32.5433333+00:00

I too have the same error while building LMMS on MSVC (I'm working on a PR that enables ASAN support). One of the plugins errors on my system (msvc build tools 2022). The CI doesn't detect it though because it uses msvc 2019.

But in my case, it's with 'annotate_string'

libstk.lib(Stk.cpp.obj) : error LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'annotate_string': value '0' doesn't match value '1' in Mallets.obj [D:\BuildAndGit\lmms\build\plugins\Stk\Mallets\malletsstk.vcxproj]

libstk is acquired via vcpkg. It is used for a plugin called mallets.

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