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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Not good.  I'm puzzled where this allocated 68K region is exactly coming
> from, but it really looks like something which occurs in or near dlopen.
> 
> I'm going to debug this further tomorrow.  I guess that goes without
> saying, but I'd be glad for any help.

  I'll just suggest that these problems can often be debugged more easily in
windbg than gdb, what with gflags/appverifier heap tracking, !vad, !heap, and
related commands.  The gflags FLG_HEAP_ENABLE_TAG_BY_DLL might come in handy here.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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