On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:31:42 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/07/12 16:03, Michael Mol wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Nikos Chantziaras > > <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Interesting that Wine aims to do the WOW64 thing. That's > >> certainly news to me :-) > > > > Not really surprising. There's an IsWow64Process() in the Windows > > API to allow processes to detect the nature of the environment > > they're running on, since sometimes that's something you need to > > know. :) > > WOW64 relies on 32-bit libraries to do it's job though. It's well > known that 32-bit code cannot link against 64-bit libraries. If > building a 64-bit only version of Wine (since you cannot build any > 32-bit code on non-multilib Gentoo), the question arises on how Wine > is doing it. > > Stupid question incoming: What's the WOW in WOW64? The more I read it as World of Warcraft the more I see that it doesn't actually fit :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
