From 06ef70e965b1711507ee510471e89435e779d5c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Hughes Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:11:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add some data to HACKING --- HACKING | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING index 5e037e527..2c54f3cc4 100644 --- a/HACKING +++ b/HACKING @@ -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. Submitting Patches ------------------