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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:56:37 +0100
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
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> 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