On 10 February 2010 09:11, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 February 2010 18:16, David Laight <da...@l8s.co.uk> wrote: > >> A 32bit (i386) windows application binary can only run in a 32bit >> Unix application [1]. In which case the Unix kernel will handle the >> system call emulation and ensure that the only user-space virtual >> addresses the application sees are 32bit (it may be able to give >> the app almost 4G of user address space - instead of the usual 3G). > > > So the Wine on my 64-bit Ubuntu (which works perfectly well) is > actually a 32-bit app? I didn't know that!
Yup. If Wine runs win32 apps (which most Windows apps are), then it's 32bit. WoW64 for the win64+win32 wine is not ready, afaik.