• Something Burger 🍔
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    03 months ago

    All modules that call a Unix library contain WoW64 thunks to enable calling the 64-bit Unix library from 32-bit PE code. This means that it is possible to run 32-bit Windows applications on a purely 64-bit Unix installation. This is called the new WoW64 mode, as opposed to the old WoW64 mode where 32-bit applications run inside a 32-bit Unix process.

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    • @BlanK0@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      So in the future no need to install 32 bit packages of wine in a 64 system??? 👀

      • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        03 months ago

        Correcto. Which means Steam will probably drop 32 bit libs soon. Which means Ubuntu will stop shipping 32 libs. The era is truly coming to an end

  • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    🎉🎉🎉

    Yet another major release that fails do support basic Win32 APIs available since Windows 95 properly.

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