Bug in VirtualAlloc

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Lunnon <bob at yarrabee.net.au> writes:

> Q. Why is there a hard limit on this ? Is this a Windows thing or a Linux 
> thing. My only way to work around it would be to "strongly Suggest* mapping 
> addresses to the OS which would be very messy.

It's a Windows thing. Some brain-damaged apps cannot cope with an
address space that goes beyond 0xc0000000. A possible work around
would be to create an anonymous mmap covering the addresses above
0xc0000000 to make sure nothing gets allocated there later on.

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Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.com