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Updated Fuzzing your nim code to rabbit out all the hard bugs (markdown)

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[afl-fuzz](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/) is quite rabid at ferreting out issues that are hard-to-impossible to find with manual testing. [afl-fuzz](http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/) is quite rabid at ferreting out issues that are hard-to-impossible to find with manual testing.
While classically, afl-fuzz attempts to detect exactly the sort of issues that nim is attempting to prevent with its runtime checks in debug mode, it is by no means of no use to the nim developer. AFL is extremely good at discovering programmer errors that cannot be caught with simple user testing, even when all the safety nets are turned on. While classically, afl-fuzz attempts to detect exactly the sort of issues that nim is attempting to prevent with its runtime checks in debug mode, it is by no means of no use to the nim developer. AFL is extremely good at discovering programmer errors that cannot be caught with simple user testing, even when all the safety nets are turned on.