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From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:33:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47570B0A.6040404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071205195637.GA20595@one.firstfloor.org>

Andi Kleen wrote:
>>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

Or perhaps huge debuginfo section(s)?  The x86_64 instance
had 2.5GB .debug_macinfo DWARF section.

Dave



  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05 20:27 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
2007-12-05 20:33       ` Dave Anderson [this message]
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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