Aug. 24, 2026
7:27 p.m.
On Mon Aug 24 19:27:03 2026 +0000, Jinoh Kang wrote:
Sorry, my mind was stuck in win16 standard mode. No problem, it is confusing. Thinking about it some more, my explanation wasn't perfectly accurate. If the system is running low on memory, memory allocations might start failing, and Wine could use that as a signal to discard discardable segments and retry the memory allocation. Still, it's unlikely that a 16-bit program would have enough discardable memory to alleviate such an extreme situation. And in practice, the OOM killer is going to kill something before any allocations start to fail.
-- https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11742#note_149736