Why reserve space below 2G without preloader? wrt. patch 1aa749d & bug 22033

Mon May 3 12:10:40 CDT 2010

Hi all,

Out of sheer curiousity, why is it important to reserve space below 2G
when there is no preloader?

Patch 1aa749d, is

    libwine: Reserve some low memory space even without a preloader.

has the comment:

/* if we don't have a preloader, try to reserve some space below 2Gb */

and is the regression for bug 22033.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22033

I will be trying to determine the excact cause of the bug later.

Johann