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That looks like the same underlying problem, but it says in there somewhere a fix was applied to 5.00_3?? But it can still be triggered in current (at least 5.14) builds.

It also isn't just a problem with MS CRT *alloc(). I tried really hard to trigger the behavior using C, but failed dismally. There is something peculiar about the combination of Perl and the MSCRT *alloc() that fight each other.

There is also the stuff in win32\vmem.h which looks (to me) like a bastardised C++ class brute-forces into C; but I could never track down whether that stuff is actually used. too many layers of defines and redefines for me to wrap my brain around.

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