Re: Non-working patch for 3GB of memory allocation

[Alexandre Julliard]

Shachar Shemesh  writes:
> Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > That's why we don't use malloc in Wine...
>
> http://source.winehq.org/source/dlls/ntdll/virtual.c#L373 says otherwise.

Yes there are a few exceptions, because we obviously can't allocate
from the process heap in the code that creates it. Also Unix libraries
will sometimes call malloc.
> > 1Gb we need to manage this ourselves, or fix the kernel memory
> > allocation algorithm. Fixing the kernel is a lot easier.
>
> Surely you mean "technologically easier", right?

Well, yes, but it's also the right place to do it.