diff --git a/README.maintainer b/README.maintainer
index 0a270e2a..209a5ebf 100644
--- a/README.maintainer
+++ b/README.maintainer
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@ Release Reminders
    running a spelling checker over the source code to catch errors in
    variable names, strings, and comments.  Use ispell -p ispell-words.
 
+ * Run tests with sanitize address enabled:
+
+   ./configure CFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -g" \
+      CXXFLAGS="-fsanitize=address -g" \
+      LDFLAGS="-fsanitize=address" \
+      --enable-werror --disable-shared
+
  * Consider running tests with latest gcc and/or valgrind.  To do
    this, replace, build with debugging and without shared libraries.
    In build, create z and move each executable into z.  Then create a
diff --git a/qpdf/qpdf.cc b/qpdf/qpdf.cc
index a5724fed..86753945 100644
--- a/qpdf/qpdf.cc
+++ b/qpdf/qpdf.cc
@@ -2050,7 +2050,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
     // deleted by using PointerHolder objects to back the pointers in
     // argv.
     std::vector<PointerHolder<char> > new_argv;
-    new_argv.push_back(PointerHolder<char>(QUtil::copy_string(argv[0]), true));
+    new_argv.push_back(PointerHolder<char>(true, QUtil::copy_string(argv[0])));
     for (int i = 1; i < argc; ++i)
     {
         if ((strlen(argv[i]) > 1) && (argv[i][0] == '@'))
@@ -2060,10 +2060,10 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
         else
         {
             new_argv.push_back(
-                PointerHolder<char>(QUtil::copy_string(argv[i]), true));
+                PointerHolder<char>(true, QUtil::copy_string(argv[i])));
         }
     }
-    PointerHolder<char*> argv_ph(new char*[1+new_argv.size()], true);
+    PointerHolder<char*> argv_ph(true, new char*[1+new_argv.size()]);
     argv = argv_ph.getPointer();
     for (size_t i = 0; i < new_argv.size(); ++i)
     {