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It might be interesting to keep track of malloc'ing of large blocks of
memory, recording the last N large blocks allocated in a table.
Or perhaps only those that do not hold conses, miscs, small strings, etc.
This way you might be able to find some large blocks and then
examine them to see what data is in them.