> We could even have some (small) statically enabled build-time
quoted text
> buffer that could be enabled straight away before any allocators
> are enabled.

Agreed - in fact the error reporting paths will also want
some pre-allocated guaranteed space at all times.  Allocating
memory from within an NMI or Machine Check handler would
cause too many problems.

-Tony
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