There's even a compat shim in Windows for that kind of thing where the memory manager would allocate a few bytes more than requested so that subsequent code (th

There's even a compat shim in Windows for that kind of thing where the memory manager would allocate a few bytes more than requested so that subsequent code (that ran fine in Win 95, for example) could overrun the allocated buffer without crashing. Back in Vista there were around 5000 applications that had shims applied by Windows to make them run correctly. I wonder how the count would look like today ...