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Filip Pizlo resolved RVM-682.
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    Resolution: Fixed

In the process of porting native threads we (Daniel and I) introduced something like this.  It's not an assertion but rather a warning, but it does the job most of the time.

> Assertion checking in sysMalloc
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>
>                 Key: RVM-682
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/RVM-682
>             Project: RVM
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: MMTk, Runtime
>            Reporter: David Grove
>             Fix For: 3.1.0
>
>
> Add assertion checking in sysMalloc to try to catch when malloc overlaps allocation with a portion of the virtual address space that MMTk things is in the Java heap.
> In general, need to make address space management bulletproof so that we don't hand out the same piece of memory to two different people...

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