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Replace the use of C++ standard library in libFuzzer #71211

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libFuzzer implementation uses C++ standard library but that introduces a number of issues:

  • When libFuzzer is built against libc++, but the application uses libstdc++, we cannot use the two together.
  • When libc++ itself is instrumented (for example with ASan), we cannot use it for libFuzzer.
  • When the application is implemented in C, we may want to avoid a dependency on the C++ library.

The current solution is to use a private version of libc++, which was introduced in D37631, but this introduces additional complexity and overhead to the build (since we need to build libc++ twice).

We should consider replacing the use of C++ standard library altogether and instead use custom implementation of the necessary containers and other utilities.

libFuzzer primarily uses std::string, std::vector, std::unordered_map and std::set. Rather than reimplementing these ourselves, we should be able to use stripped down and simplified implementations from LLVM ADT, which is strategy which was also adopted for sanitizers.

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