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

[Dave Anderson]

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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