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On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Brian Ford wrote:

> Ok, after further investigation, this is a /3GB boot.ini flag interaction.
> Unfortunately, this is a critical flag for our application, so all our
> machines are configured this way.  That is why I failed to realize its
> significance before.
>
> I understand if this is now too much of an obscure case for you to be
> interested in.  If so, I'll try to look into it soon on my own.  I suspect
> it must have been related to your MEM_TOP_DOWN change.

One more tidbit before I have time to find the real problem.  Compiling
the test case with -Wl,large-address-aware makes the test pass on a /3GB
system.

-- 
Brian Ford
Lead Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
the best safety device in any aircraft is a well-trained crew...



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