diff --git a/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/Readme.md b/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/Readme.md
index 059f65303f..e5ce98f8ad 100644
--- a/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/Readme.md
+++ b/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/Readme.md
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ $ make coverage
 Would build all unit tests, runs them one after the other, then generates html code
 coverage and places them in build/coverage with initial file index.html
 
+## Runing tests with Address Sanitizer enabled ##
+The GCC address sanitizer can be enabled by passing in "ENABLE_SANITIZER=1" when calling make.
+
+Note: Enabling the address sanitizer will introduce additional branches that may not be possible to get test coverage of. For this reason, the address sanitizer is not enabled by default. It is recommended that developers enable the address sanitizer when modifying or developing new test cases.
+
 ## Running individual tests
 From each test directory, you can build, run the test, and generate gcov coverage with the default "all" target like so:
 ```
diff --git a/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/makefile.in b/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/makefile.in
index 17ab96cb66..ac56f4ba69 100644
--- a/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/makefile.in
+++ b/FreeRTOS/Test/CMock/makefile.in
@@ -41,20 +41,24 @@ CPPFLAGS    :=
 
 # Compiler flags
 CFLAGS              :=  $(INCLUDE_DIR)  -O0 -ggdb -pthread  --std=c99 -Werror -Wall
-CFLAGS              +=  -fsanitize=address,undefined -fsanitize-recover=address
 CFLAGS              +=  -fstack-protector-all
 CFLAGS              +=  -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Werror=array-bounds
 CFLAGS              +=  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
+ifeq ($(ENABLE_SANITIZER),1)
+    CFLAGS          +=  -fsanitize=address,undefined -fsanitize-recover=address
+endif
 
 # Linker flags
 LDFLAGS             :=  -L$(LIB_DIR) -Wl,-rpath,$(LIB_DIR)
-LDFLAGS             +=  -fsanitize=address,undefined
 LDFLAGS             +=  -pthread
 LDFLAGS             +=  -lunity
 LDFLAGS             +=  -lunitymemory
 LDFLAGS             +=  -lcexception
 LDFLAGS             +=  -lcmock
 LDFLAGS             +=  -lgcov
+ifeq ($(ENABLE_SANITIZER),1)
+    LDFLAGS         +=  -fsanitize=address,undefined
+endif
 
 # Shared libraries
 LIBS                :=  libunity