From https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer

AddressSanitizer (aka ASan) is a memory error detector for C/C++. It finds:
- Use after free (dangling pointer dereference)
- Heap buffer overflow
- Stack buffer overflow
- Global buffer overflow
- Use after return
- Use after scope
- Initialization order bugs
- Memory leaks

It might be useful to update configure/makefiles to support building JDK with ASan.

AddressSanitizer is available in gcc 4.8 and clang 3.1.