add some data to HACKING

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Richard Hughes 2007-11-08 23:11:12 +00:00
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@ -65,8 +65,14 @@ Remember:
* Never allocate a buffer on user input
* Output from backends is trusted, they are run from standard locations
Use flawfinder to find obvious security problems. Use "ITS4: ignore" if you are
totally 100% sure that it's not a problem.
Use 'make security-check' to find obvious security problems.
Use "ITS4: ignore" if you are totally 100% sure that it's not a problem.
If you compile with --enable-gcov you can use 'make gcov' to get coverage
reports for the unit test code.
If you compile with --enable-gprof you can use 'make gprof' to get profiling
data - but you probably don't want to be building packages with these options
turned on for obvious reasons.
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