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On 14 Apr 2005, at 08:45, Duncan Sands wrote:

> The reason for doing it is pragmatic: many programs allocate memory 
> that
> they never use....

This problem seems easy to solve then. Just allocate and immediately 
write some stuff to the start and end of the block.