Can I use Thread Sanitizer for OpenMP programs?

Question

Consider the following example:

#include  

int main () {
    int i = 0;
    #pragma omp parallel
    {
        #pragma omp critical
                 


        

Answer 1

Yes, at least with Clang this is relatively easy. You'll need to build libomp (which Clang uses instead of libgomp) with ThreadSanitizer support. This doesn't take that long:

git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
cd llvm-project
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DLIBOMP_TSAN_SUPPORT=1 ../openmp
sudo cmake --build . --target install

(sudo and --target install is optional if you adjust the path to libomp.so below)

Now running your example works without any errors if you use this libomp.so instead of the system one:

clang++ -fsanitize=thread -fopenmp main.cpp
env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/lib/libomp.so ./a.out