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> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
> Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 12:34:54 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> But the problem is that you can't check or fix bugs in the
> SYSTEM_MALLOC build process that way. Even if XP does support
> REL_ALLOC, 2k3 and Vista (and above) apparently don't. But, as you
> said, it should still build and work in pure DOS, and REL_ALLOC is
> more efficient, so I guess you highly prefer that. Still, supporting
> both would be highly preferable if at all conveniently possible.

It's preferable, no doubt; I just don't have enough free time to do
that.  But I'm willing to try debugging any problems that will be
reported.