Non-working patch for 3GB of memory allocation

[Shachar Shemesh]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> writes:
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>>I think there is one zero too many here. Did you mean 0780000?
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>No, 78000000. Check loader/Makefile.in.
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Saw it. Didn't understand it, but that will have to wait until tomorrow, 
I guess. Half past midnight is too late to start RTFMing.

>>So, effectively, in order to use this area, we'll need to manage it
>>ourselves. Is that a correct assertion? Is there any reason we use
>>malloc at all at the moment? It seems like unnecessary overhead to
>>me. Don't we already know how to ask the OS for memory, and already
>>know how to manage a heap inside this memory?
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>That's why we don't use malloc in Wine...
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http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/ntdll/virtual.c#L373 says otherwise.

> And yes, to use the lower
>1Gb we need to manage this ourselves, or fix the kernel memory
>allocation algorithm. Fixing the kernel is a lot easier.
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Surely you mean "technologically easier", right?

             Shachar

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