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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
> Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 12:11:55 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> is this a traceback type abort for us?  Or an NTVDM death?

I think it's just killed, no traceback, no nothin'.  You just get
kicked back to the shell prompt (or, if you started Emacs from
START->RUN, the DOS box closes).

Laurynas, is this true in your case?

> If it's dieing outside our code, it could be that Win2K has bugs in
> the realloc dpmi call which is used for unixy sbrk.

Yes, that's a possibility, but shouldn't this actually happen during
a call to sbrk (i.e., in a sense, _inside_ our code)?

> > Btw, Charles will probably ask this at some point, so I'll answer
> > proactively: Emacs sets the Unixy sbrk bit in _crt0_startup_flags.
> 
> It would be interesting to see if clearing that caused it to behave
> better (with the refresh fix to sbrk()...)

I thought Unixy sbrk was recommended for NT and its descendants, no?
Or are the reasons gone with the changes in refreshed 2.03?