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From: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
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To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems
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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