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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> The only difference of Vista/W7 to earlier system is the additional ASLR
> feature which could help to plaster over the issue in a non-reproducible
> way.  */me ducks to escape Chucks slap*

No slap from me. Your analysis shows conclusively that ASLR is and
always was a red herring.  "For every complex problem, there is a
solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." (H.L.Mencken)

I'm now really glad that the peflagsall functionality was kept separate,
and not made an automatic part of rebaseall.

--
Chuck

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