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> From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 22:40:02 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> I have checked in a test that runs a program and sees if the heap start
> address is random.

Doesn't this harm cross-building Emacs?  I always thought that running
a test program at configure time should be avoided, and that tests
that only compile or link programs should be peferred.