Comment # 7 on bug 1028744 from Richard Biener

(In reply to Michal Suchanek from comment #6)
> I cannot make it to build with the devel:gcc gcc.
> 
> I even removed the Leap repo but OBS still installs 22.2 revision of the
> compiler while devel:gcc has 174.1.
> 
> Installing the compiler in SLE does not give working environment because SLE
> does not have the libraries for building the package.
> 
> Still it can be tested much easier:
> 
>  touch test.c
>  gcc -fsanitize=address test.c
> test.c:1:0: warning: -fsanitize=address not supported for this target
> [enabled by default]
> /usr/lib64/gcc/powerpc64le-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../powerpc64le-suse-linux/
> bin/ld: cannot find libasan_preinit.o: No such file or directory
> /usr/lib64/gcc/powerpc64le-suse-linux/4.8/../../../../powerpc64le-suse-linux/
> bin/ld: cannot find -lasan
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>  gcc --version
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
>  rpm -qi gcc48
> Name        : gcc48
> Version     : 4.8.5
> Release     : 174.1
> 
> meaning it's still broken unless I am missing a library/plugin which does
> not have a strict dependency so would not be pulled with gcc.

Hm?  It now works as expected (same behavior as on arm, now including the
warning).

-fsanitize=address is _not_ supported on ppc64le with GCC 4.8.

Were you expecting it to work?