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tux3 · 2026-06-01 · via LWN.net comments

Could this break user space?

Posted Jun 1, 2026 15:39 UTC (Mon) by tux3 (subscriber, #101245)
In reply to: Could this break user space? by smcv
Parent article: Reconsidering x32 — again

About Wine, I think it ships a new WoW64 mode that can run on a 64bit host without even any 32bit libraries or 32bit syscalls.
So your modern 32bit Wine installation is a bunch of 64bit ELFs, and the NT syscalls far jump to 64bit mode with ye old Heaven's Gate.

I believe on ARM this actually lets you run 32bit Windows apps without any 32bit support from the host, since the x86 instructions are JIT-ed anyways.
On x86 I believe (?) the kernel only needs to leave a 32bit descriptor laying around in the GDT, you could maybe remove all other IA32 support and Wine might keep working?
(Of course all of this is still unrelated to x32)


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