[Bug 33858] Multiple 32-bit applications crash due to virtual address space exhaustion (Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, The Testament of Sherlock Holmes)

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33858

Zebediah Figura  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Multiple games crash        |Multiple 32-bit
                   |without LARGEADDRESSAWARE   |applications crash due to
                   |flag (Far Cry 3, Splinter   |virtual address space
                   |Cell: Blacklist, The        |exhaustion (Far Cry 3,
                   |Testament of Sherlock       |Splinter Cell: Blacklist,
                   |Holmes)                     |The Testament of Sherlock
                   |                            |Holmes)

--- Comment #19 from Zebediah Figura  ---
(In reply to Paul Gofman from comment #18)
> (In reply to Zebediah Figura from comment #17)
> > Not to mention that making the bug about IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE is
> > not great in the first place, since that's just a workaround and cannot be a
> > real solution.
>
> The bug title looks unfortunate, as the absence of LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag is
> of course not a bug and is not the reason of the problem. Other than that,
> isn't it useful to collect the multiple applications which fail most likely
> due to address space exhaustion? Maybe along with changing bug title?

I'm not sure I see how it's useful, given what I said above—ways to relieve
address space pressure, if they even exist, may be specific to each application
affected by exhaustion. A bug titled something like "multiple applications
exhaust address space" can't really be closed, not even as WONTFIX.