Hmm,
> Stick a bzero() in xmalloc() in misc.c at the obvious place -- that's what
> I ended up doing, anyway.  Sed was doing accesses to uninitialized memory.
> After this change my sed is once again able to create the whatis database.

ld dumps core on me, in its xmalloc() routine. I wonder...

This was while trying to compile Wine with "-g" and "-static" for linking.

I will have a look what ld does, and let the world know if it's a similar
problem...
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