NAME

       afl-cc - afl-cc++4.08c by Michal Zalewski, Laszlo Szekeres, Marc Heuse afl-cc

SYNOPSIS

       afl-cc/afl-c++ [options]

OPTIONS

       This is a helper application for afl-fuzz. It serves as a drop-in replacement
       for gcc and clang, letting you recompile third-party code with the required
       runtime instrumentation. A common use pattern would be one of the following:

         CC=afl-cc CXX=afl-c++ ./configure --disable-shared
         cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILERC=afl-cc -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=afl-c++ .
         CC=afl-cc CXX=afl-c++ meson

                                              |------------- FEATURES -------------|
       MODES:                                  NCC PERSIST DICT   LAF CMPLOG SELECT
         [LLVM] LLVM:             AVAILABLE [SELECTED]
             PCGUARD              AVAILABLE      yes yes     module yes yes    yes
             CLASSIC                    no  yes     module yes yes    yes
               - NORMAL
               - CALLER
               - CTX
               - NGRAM-{2-16}
         [LTO] LLVM LTO:          DEFAULT
             PCGUARD              DEFAULT      yes yes     yes    yes yes    yes
             CLASSIC                           yes yes     yes    yes yes    yes
         [GCC_PLUGIN] gcc plugin: unavailable!
             CLASSIC              DEFAULT      no  yes     no     no  no     yes
         [GCC/CLANG] simple gcc/clang: AVAILABLE
             CLASSIC              DEFAULT      no  no      no     no  no     no

       Modes:
         To select the compiler mode use a symlink version (e.g. afl-clang-fast), set
         the environment variable AFL_CC_COMPILER to a mode (e.g. LLVM) or use the
         command line parameter --afl-MODE (e.g. --afl-llvm). If none is selected,
         afl-cc will select the best available (LLVM -> GCC_PLUGIN -> GCC).
         The best is LTO but it often needs RANLIB and AR settings outside of afl-cc.

       Sub-Modes: (set via env AFL_LLVM_INSTRUMENT, afl-cc selects the best available)
         PCGUARD: Dominator tree instrumentation (best!) (README.llvm.md)
         LLVM-NATIVE:  use llvm's native PCGUARD instrumentation (less performant)
         CLASSIC: decision target instrumentation (README.llvm.md)
         CALLER:  CLASSIC + single callee context (instrumentation/README.ctx.md)
         CTX:     CLASSIC + full callee context (instrumentation/README.ctx.md)
         NGRAM-x: CLASSIC + previous path ((instrumentation/README.ngram.md)

       Features: (see documentation links)
         NCC:    non-colliding coverage [automatic] (that is an amazing thing!)
                 (instrumentation/README.lto.md)
         PERSIST: persistent mode support [code] (huge speed increase!)
                 (instrumentation/README.persistent_mode.md)
         DICT:   dictionary in the target [yes=automatic or LLVM module pass]
                 (instrumentation/README.lto.md + instrumentation/README.llvm.md)
         LAF:    comparison splitting [env] (instrumentation/README.laf-intel.md)
         CMPLOG: input2state exploration [env] (instrumentation/README.cmplog.md)
         SELECT: selective instrumentation (allow/deny) on filename or function [env]
                 (instrumentation/README.instrument_list.md)

       To see all environment variables for the configuration of afl-cc use "-hh".

       For any information on the available instrumentations and options please
       consult the README.md, especially section 3.1 about instrumenting targets.

       afl-cc LTO with ld=/usr/lib/llvm-14/bin/ld.lld -flto=full
       afl-cc LLVM version 14 using the binary path "/usr/lib/llvm-14/bin".
       Compiled with shmat support.

       Do not be overwhelmed :) afl-cc uses good defaults if no options are selected.
       Read the documentation for FEATURES though, all are good but few are defaults.
       Recommended is afl-clang-lto with AFL_LLVM_CMPLOG or afl-clang-fast with
       AFL_LLVM_CMPLOG and AFL_LLVM_DICT2FILE+AFL_LLVM_DICT2FILE_NO_MAIN.

AUTHOR

       AFL++  was  written  by  Michal  "lcamtuf" Zalewski and is maintained by Marc "van Hauser"
       Heuse   <mh@mh-sec.de>,    Dominik    Maier    <domenukk@gmail.com>,    Andrea    Fioraldi
       <andreafioraldi@gmail.com>  and Heiko "hexcoder-" Eissfeldt <heiko.eissfeldt@hexco.de> The
       homepage of AFL++ is: https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus

LICENSE

       Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004