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Tue Aug 30 17:20:58 CDT 2005


specifically provided by and anonymous mmap, presumably for performance 
purposes.

The proposed solution for this has been to prevent mmap from allocating over 
the 3GB mark by reserving any free space over that limit with a chain of mmap 
calls.

At least under Solaris there would appear to be  two other "nicer" ways to 
achieve the same result.

1. Allocate the windows heap with a call to libc malloc which at least under 
Solaris maps memory from the stack top upward in memory.

2. For each mmap call locate a suitable unmapped memory area and then mmap 
FIXED that area, a technique already used successfully in the Solaris 
specific mmap code.

Of course none of this will prevent DSOs being loaded above the top of memory 
but. from the wine codebase only the heap seems to be at issue.


For what it's worth I can't see Microsoft retaining this architecture since 
the windows split is not likely to be the same into the future for example 
with AMD64 and probably was different even for Alpha. I also acknowledge that 
Alexandre and I disagree on this particular point.

Bob




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