Re: [PATCH v4 0/1] MR2118: ntdll: Explaining with wine requires a 3G/1G split on 32bit

[Alexandre Julliard (＠julliard)]

Alexandre Julliard (@julliard) commented about dlls/ntdll/unix/loader.c:
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> - For that, we need to ensure that Linux doesn't map anything internal in that
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> - area, which it does if configured with a 2G/2G split. Unfortunately, Linux
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> - does initially map the stack there, along with its own vDSO.
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> - A potentially nice thing to have is to move KUSER_SHARED_DATA if the
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> - hardcoded address does not work.
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> - Yet there is no official way to communicate the address from ntdll to
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> - kernel32, as is should be at a fixed address in the first place.  The only
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> - alternative might be wine-specific private calls from kernel32 to ntdll,
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> - which is bad.
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> - Moreover, while it would probably make 99% of applications out there happy,
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> - this would still break the ABI, which is also bad.

That doesn't make any sense. Breaking the ABI is not an option at all.