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    [project @ 2002-02-01 10:50:35 by simonmar] · b8684d58
    Simon Marlow authored
    When distinguishing between code & data pointers, rather than testing
    for membership of the text section, test for not membership of one of
    the data sections.
    
    The reason for this change is that testing for membership of the text
    section was fragile:  we could only test whether a value was smaller
    than the end address, because there doesn't appear to be a portable
    way to find the beginning of the text section.  Indeed, the test
    breaks on very recent Linux kernels which mmap() memory below the
    program text.
    
    In fact, the reversed test may be faster because the expected common
    case is when the pointer is into the dynamic heap, and we eliminate
    these case immediately in the new test.  A quick test shows no
    measurable performance difference with the change.
    
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