Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:50:54 +0200
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> From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:00:13 +0200
> 
> #include <crt0.h>
> int _crt0_startup_flags =  _CRT0_FLAG_FILL_SBRK_MEMORY |
>                   _CRT0_FLAG_FILL_DEADBEEF;
> 
> in the main module.

I think this will only help if an uninitialized pointers are passed to
`free'.  It is much more probable that the bug is in some code that
writes past the end of an allocated buffer; in that case, I don't
think the above will help (but it won't hurt to try that).