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Update README about HWASan #984

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Expand Up @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ what we need from the NDK and make it available to the build.
## Hardware-assisted Address Sanitizer (hwasan)

The recommended way to detect memory errors such as use-after-free in native
code is with hwasan. It uses special hardware features on 64-bit ARM devices,
and requires a special build of Android. It is preferable to asan (below)
because it has much less RAM overhead.
code is with hwasan. It uses special hardware features on 64-bit ARM devices. It
is preferable to asan (below) because it has much less RAM overhead, and is
actively supported.

For more information, including how to flash a build of Android that supports
hwasan, refer to the Android developer
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