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@@ -201,7 +201,10 @@ The following sanitizers have built-in support in AFL++:
   security issue, but for developers this can be very valuable. Note that unlike
   the other sanitizers above this needs `__AFL_LEAK_CHECK();` added to all areas
   of the target source code where you find a leak check necessary! Enabled with
-  `export AFL_USE_LSAN=1` before compiling.
+  `export AFL_USE_LSAN=1` before compiling. To ignore the memory-leaking check
+  for certain allocations, `__AFL_LSAN_OFF();` can be used before memory is 
+  allocated, and `__AFL_LSAN_OFF;` afterwards. Memory allocated between these
+  two macros will not be checked for memory leaks.
 
 It is possible to further modify the behavior of the sanitizers at run-time by
 setting `ASAN_OPTIONS=...`, `LSAN_OPTIONS` etc. - the available parameters can
@@ -890,4 +893,4 @@ covered.
 
 Note that there are also a lot of tools out there that help fuzzing with AFL++
 (some might be deprecated or unsupported), see
-[third_party_tools.md](third_party_tools.md).
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+[third_party_tools.md](third_party_tools.md).