diff -urN linux-86-vanila/ld/globvar.h linux-86/ld/globvar.h
--- linux-86-vanila/ld/globvar.h	Tue Oct 29 23:05:22 2002
+++ linux-86/ld/globvar.h	Wed Oct 30 15:57:56 2002
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 /* K&R _explicitly_ says extern followed by public is OK */
 extern char hexdigit[];			/* constant */
 extern int  headerless;			/* Don't output header on exe */
+extern int  bigheader;
 
 extern bin_off_t text_base_value;	/* Base address of text seg */
 extern bin_off_t data_base_value;	/* Base or alignment of data seg */
diff -urN linux-86-vanila/ld/ld.c linux-86/ld/ld.c
--- linux-86-vanila/ld/ld.c	Tue Oct 29 23:05:22 2002
+++ linux-86/ld/ld.c	Wed Oct 30 15:56:45 2002
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 PUBLIC bin_off_t data_base_value = 0;	/* XXX */
 PUBLIC bin_off_t heap_top_value  = 0;	/* XXX */
 PUBLIC int headerless = 0;
+PUBLIC int bigheader = 0;
 PUBLIC char hexdigit[] = "0123456789abcdef";
 
 PRIVATE bool_t flag[128];
@@ -172,6 +173,7 @@
 		   data_base_value = strtoul(arg+2, (char **)0, 16);
 		if (errno != 0)
 		    use_error("invalid data address");
+		bigheader = 1;
 		break;
 	    case 'H':		/* heap top address */
 		if (arg[2] == 0 && ++argn >= argc)
diff -urN linux-86-vanila/ld/writex86.c linux-86/ld/writex86.c
--- linux-86-vanila/ld/writex86.c	Tue Oct 29 23:05:22 2002
+++ linux-86/ld/writex86.c	Wed Oct 30 15:57:25 2002
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #define ELF_SYMS 0
 #endif
 
-#  define FILEHEADERLENGTH (headerless?0:A_MINHDR)
+#  define FILEHEADERLENGTH (headerless?0:(bigheader?sizeof(struct exec):A_MINHDR))
 				/* part of header not counted in offsets */
 #define DPSEG 2
 
@@ -620,8 +620,10 @@
 
     offtocn((char *) &header.a_total, (bin_off_t) heap_top_value,
 	    sizeof header.a_total);
-    if( FILEHEADERLENGTH )
-       writeout((char *) &header, FILEHEADERLENGTH);
+    if(bigheader)
+	offtocn((char *) &header.a_dbase, data_base_value, sizeof header.a_dbase);
+    if( header.a_hdrlen )
+       writeout((char *) &header, header.a_hdrlen);
 }
 
 PRIVATE void writenulls(count)
--- linux-86-vanila/libc/bcc/heap.c	Fri Nov  1 02:43:13 2002
+++ linux-86/libc/bcc/heap.c	Fri Nov  1 02:41:12 2002
@@ -44,9 +44,6 @@
   js	go_down
   add	ax,[brk_addr]	! Goin up!
   jc	Enomem
-  sub	bx,#511		! Safety space 512 bytes
-  cmp	bx,ax		! Too close ?
-  jb	Enomem
 
 sbrk_ok:
 #if !defined(__MSDOS__) && !defined(__STANDALONE__)
@@ -121,6 +118,7 @@
 
 #ifdef L___brk_addr
 char * __brk_addr = 0;	/* This holds the current return for sbrk(0) */
+
 char * 
 __brk(val)
 {