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Subject: Re: [BUG] get_unmapped_area() change -> non booting machine
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> The real question is - why does malloc() break?  I'd expect malloc()
> to use MAP_ANON these days, when brk() fails.  But it seems not.

I don't know, trying to find my way in glibc mess^H^H^H^Hsource...

Well, it's non-obvious, it should have fallen back to mmap, unless
something wrong in the glibc build undefined HAVE_MMAP ...

Ben.