From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:56:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071205195637.GA20595@one.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <475702E7.1000607@redhat.com>
> I agree in theory. We've only seen instances on 64-bitters...
I think that's because gcc does not support the medium/large code models
for i386. Although in theory someone could create an executable with
a large enough .data.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-05 15:36 [PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems Dave Anderson
2007-12-05 19:41 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-05 19:58 ` Dave Anderson
2007-12-05 19:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-12-05 20:33 ` Dave Anderson
2007-12-06 22:15 ` [NEW-PATCH] " Andi Kleen
2007-12-06 22:37 ` Dave Anderson
2007-12-06 22:40 ` Andi Kleen
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