Twas brillig at 15:41:36 04.06.2010 UTC+10 when [email protected] did 
gyre and gimble:

 PH> for extra fun - this bug is present in pretty all server versions since 1.2
 PH> but didn't get exposed until the xalloc → malloc changes. I just took the
 PH> 1.7 sources and valgrind didn't complain. Changed xalloc to malloc, 
valgrind
 PH> gives out.

 PH> Any guesses to why xalloc hides this issue are appreciated.

Due to additional 4 bytes alignment in Xalloc, so it worked 75% of the
time :) Hence xalloc->malloc made this bug explicit. I will have a look.

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