Re: World of Warcraft (WoW) patch/more address space layout stuff

[Raphael]

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 16:37, Mike Hearn wrote:
> > Interesting.. if MacOSX has a similar memory layout as linux, maybe we
> > could get Blizzard to include a workaround that is only active when it
> > sees that it's running under wine/cedega.
>
> Well if you can get the email address of a WoW developer then maybe we
> can track down where the problem in WoW is and work with them to fix
> it. I don't think Wine-specific workarounds make any sense: the
> address space layout when not requesting a specific address is not
> guaranteed. Vista already includes ASLR which is likely to break such
> software. It will need to be fixed sooner or later, might as well be
> sooner :)

Yes ia agree,
maybe asking them to try it on vista may help :)

Regards,
Raphael