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Re: Large-Address awareness on 64 bit systems


On 19/06/2011 4:02 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
On Jun 18 16:32, Ryan Johnson wrote:
In general, how does ASLR affect things? Do heaps and system dlls risk
wandering into high memory?
Try it. AFAICS, Windows does not use the large address area at all.
Hmm. That could be a double-edged sword: If we rebase everything into high memory and also mark the dlls ASLR-aware, windows might very well stuff everything back into the crowded low address space.

Unfortunately I don't have time this week to play around with this, or I'd be reporting actual results instead of speculation...

Ryan


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