Upcoming breakage warning

[Marcus Meissner]

On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 09:46:50AM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fedora Core 2, the kernel is compiled with the 4G/4G VM split option
> enabled, which can prevent us from performing a correct emulation.
> 
> Win32 apps are apparently built with the assumption that they will not
> be allocated addresses beyond the 3G boundary. The solution therefore is
> to perform a similar trick to the preloader and reserve the address space
> before the emulation starts so mmap will never use addresses in that area.
> 
> This probably won't be combined with the preloader itself though, as
> Alexandre says it can be done after Wine gets control (what about DSOs
> mapped >3gig?) and so it can be done more portably. Up until now this
> issue has only affected Solaris and therefore nobody fixed it.
> 
> There is currently no known workaround for this problem short of
> recompiling your kernel. The error looks like this:
> 
> wine: unable to create process heap
> 
> Alexandre diagnosed this problem so I'm sure he'll correct me if this
> email contains any mistakes.

Could it be that Redhat is trying to deliberate break WINE every half year ;)

Ciao, Marcus