Bug in VirtualAlloc

[Robert Lunnon]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:08, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Robert Lunnon <bob at yarrabee.net.au> writes:
> > Q. Why is there a hard limit on this ? Is this a Windows thing or a Linux
> > thing. My only way to work around it would be to "strongly Suggest*
> > mapping addresses to the OS which would be very messy.
>
> It's a Windows thing. Some brain-damaged apps cannot cope with an
> address space that goes beyond 0xc0000000. A possible work around
> would be to create an anonymous mmap covering the addresses above
> 0xc0000000 to make sure nothing gets allocated there later on.

This would be an answer, I'll have a look at this approach.