World of Warcraft (WoW) patch/more address space layout stuff

[n0dalus]

On 5/1/06, Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net> wrote:
>
> Seems the WoW appdb page (apart from being a great example of what an
> appdb entry should be like!) recommends users patch their Wine to run WoW
> properly.
>

The patch mentioned particularly causes problems on systems like
Fedora with randomized prelinking and exec-shield.

On FC5 it took me some time to get the patched version to run and used:
setarch i386 -L wine WoW.exe -opengl

This apparently enables support for a legacy address layout. Does
anyone know how this would allow it to run?

Just curious,
n0dalus.