based on the fact that the crash never seemed to have happened with default screen resolutions and also inspired by the only other getmem usage in the code I came up with this simple solution which seems to work just fine.
I do not understand why getmem seems to need this, but well - feel free to explain.
As a special exception, FreeType can also be built with the 'makepp'
build tool, available from http://makepp.sourceforge.net.
Note, however. that you will need at least version 1.19 and pass the
option --norc-substitution to have it work correctly.