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...ddress space. This tends to happen far more often when allocation a number of large objects early in the processing. Investigating the malloc.c routines indicates that when expanding the heap to allocate a large object that will not fit, the windows sbrk emulation routine calls an internal routine findregion with the object size (rounded up for overhead). This routine essentially searches the virtual address space for an unused place large enough to put the object, looking towards higher addresses, until it finds a suitable location and always starting at the end of the last chunk allocated. The issue...