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> You ended the disassembly prematurely, I think: the exception happened on 
> the very next line.  Here's what follows the `cld' line:

Uhm right, I've already had trouble understanding, how could 'cld'
ever cause crashes...

> So both crashes are somehow related to the 16-bit helper.  It would be
> interesting to know whether the other crash indeed happens inside the 
> 16-bit helper or not.  See my other mail for some advice about avoiding 
> false alarms.

As I wrote in my other mail, it seems like alarm is mostly true...

> dos_alloc_ok is not an extern symbol, so it might be tricky.  However,
> I've just tried "break dos_alloc_ok", and it did work for me.  I didn't 
> try to run Emacs with that breakpoint, though; do you mean that the 
> breakpoint seems to be set, but never breaks?

Exactly.

> As for setting a breakpoint by address, did you remember to prepend an 
> asterisk to the address, like this:

>         (gdb) b *0x1252

Yes I did.

Laurynas