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On 8/3/2011 1:32 PM, David Rothenberger wrote:
> On 8/3/2011 1:19 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Other than that I don't have an answer for you.  There's only
>> so much you can do within the 32 bit address space.  That's only one
>> reason why a 64 bit Cygwin would be a good idea.
> 
> What was the motivation for putting the heap and mmaps above 0x80000000?
> Was there not enough space for them below? Would there be enough space
> below if all the DLLs were above?

Rereading this, I realized it sounds a little snotty. I'm not trying to
second guess your decision; I was just curious. Feel free to ignore the
question. :)

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