Allocating too much memory for prelink workaround

Mike Hearn mike at theoretic.com
Sat Dec 13 14:53:49 CST 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 20:21, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> I don't see how, if the executable isn't used it won't do any
> good. What we need is a way to reserve the memory but not the swap
> space; but I don't think we can do that simply with a bss hack, it
> will require a linker script which is a major pain.

Well, I asked this before but didn't get an answer - why can't we work
with Jakub to have some new ELF flag/section to reserve a particular
area of memory for the win32 binary?

Hmm, also, what happens if the binary is >256mb? For instance, some very
large installers can go beyond that size. How does that work on Windows?




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