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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:31:56 -0700 (PDT)

> > means sparc ends up allocating 38 * sizeof(u32) * sizeof(u32), and
> > sparc64 ends up with 36 * sizeof(u64) * sizeof(u64), which must surely
> > be wrong?
> 
> Yup!  Sure looks like Dave skipped the step where it says "test that core
> dumps work ... and produce correct results". :-)

It was allocating too much memory, which is harmless.

So it did work, and I did test it.