Re: [PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems

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Andi Kleen wrote:
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

Or perhaps huge debuginfo section(s)?  The x86_64 instance
had 2.5GB .debug_macinfo DWARF section.

Dave


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