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In message <1A89617A-5F0E-492E-8C21-10A4F679BCD2@freebsd.org>, Jason Evans writes:

>The most likely types of application bugs that this malloc  
>implementation will uncover are:

And speaking from experience: You can do Jason a big favour by
trying your app with Electric Fence or similar before yelling
at him.

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