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On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> Another idea:
> 
> We could add a sbrk(0) call before calling sbrk() with the expected 
> size - and if it's aligned the sbrk() value should be also.  If
> sbrk(0) not aligned, we sbrk() the small number of bytes to align - 
> which will always work (unless there's a equality bug right at the
> boundary in sbrk...)

I like this idea better: it will probably lead to a simpler and more
localized implementation.