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Subject: Re: Why are the base addresses for Cygwin executable so high?
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From: Marco Atzeri <marco DOT atzeri AT gmail DOT com>
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On 31/07/2016 20:37, Hamza Sood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed that Cygwin related executables (including ones compiled myself) seem to have a base address of 0x100400000, whereas all other windows executables seem to use 0x400000.
> Is there a particular reason why Cygwin executables need to start so high up? What's going on in the 4GB underneath them?
> --


look on
/proc/<pid>/maps

below 0x100000000 there are
- windows system dll's
- heaps and stacks

Regards
Marco




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