Non-working patch for 3GB of memory allocation
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org
Wed Jul 28 11:14:45 CDT 2004
Shachar Shemesh <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> writes:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
>
>>That's why we don't use malloc in Wine...
>>
> http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/ntdll/virtual.c#L373 says otherwise.
Yes there are a few exceptions, because we obviously can't allocate
from the process heap in the code that creates it. Also Unix libraries
will sometimes call malloc.
>>1Gb we need to manage this ourselves, or fix the kernel memory
>>allocation algorithm. Fixing the kernel is a lot easier.
>>
> Surely you mean "technologically easier", right?
Well, yes, but it's also the right place to do it.
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Alexandre Julliard
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