From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: Re: gcc-crash - and a possible solution
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:18:56 -0600 (CDT)
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One caveat to beware of ...

When the DPMI provider returns randomly ordered blocks, software that
expects to do arithmetic on sbrk() results can get very unhappy.  
Triple check anything with calls to sbrk() !

This is another area besides unsigned problems to bite in the past.