On May 12, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > On 5/12/10 5:37 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: >> What problems does this cause? > It makes Wine use more memory than it needs to. > > http://wiki.winehq.org/UnalignedMmap >> Can't we achieve that just by avoiding the mapping of the "mmap" identifier >> to the _mmap$UNIX2003 symbol? > We could for 32-bit, but not 64-bit.
And does the problem still matter in 64-bit? Also, are unaligned PE images also prevalent for 64-bit executables? There are many cases in which 64-bit ABIs impose stricter alignment requirements. I don't know if this is one of them. -Ken
