[Bug 16023] FreeBSD (PC-BSD) fails to launch majority of applications, 'Invalid address'

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Sat Jan 3 19:52:58 CST 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16023





--- Comment #32 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-01-03 19:52:58 ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #30)
> > From what I've been told this is needed to get more sophisticated copy
> > protection schemes working.
> 
> Some programs always assume that core dlls exist in all processes at the same
> base addresses. And use this assumption for some nasty stuff.
> 

This is one of the cases where we'll likely have to take the good with the bad.
A lot of viruses/etc., use this behavior, but some anti-hack, etc. does as
well.


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