Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755660AbXLET4v (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:56:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752213AbXLET4m (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:56:42 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:36958 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753518AbXLET4l (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 14:56:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:56:37 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Dave Anderson Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems Message-ID: <20071205195637.GA20595@one.firstfloor.org> References: <4756C590.9080301@redhat.com> <475702E7.1000607@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <475702E7.1000607@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 482 Lines: 12 > I agree in theory. We've only seen instances on 64-bitters... I think that's because gcc does not support the medium/large code models for i386. Although in theory someone could create an executable with a large enough .data. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/