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

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## Testing for bugs in your code
By default AFL will identify segfaults and such but not vulnerabilities in your code. You can add extra assertions to be run only during the AFL test with:
Please keep in mind that fuzzing is supposed to find the **unknown/unexpected** errors, not just the ones you are anticipating. Thus, whereever possible, err on the side of caution and consider all exceptions to be a failure state that will bite you in the butt once you ship. That said, you can use this nice template to trigger a AFL "crash" condition:
```nim
when defined(macosx) or defined(linux) or defined(freebsd) or
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discard posix.kill(pid, posix.SIGABRT)
```
Also add `-d:afl` to your nim.cfg to enable this.
Then add `-d:afl` to your nim.cfg to enable this.