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Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

From: Pierre Baillargeon <pbaillargeon at innobec dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:03:11 -0500
Subject: Re: 1.7.0 CVS mmap failure

About the reason why the last 64K just before 2GB can't be used in Windows, I'll refer you to this post in The Old New Thing blog by Raymond Chen, who regularly discusses such obscure compatibility issues.

See http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/08/55239.aspx.

(Short answer: it has to do with address fixup when loading executable image and the influence of the alpha processor on the design.)

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