[HN Gopher] Wine 9.0
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       Wine 9.0
        
       Author : BitPirate
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2024-01-16 22:28 UTC (33 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (gitlab.winehq.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (gitlab.winehq.org)
        
       | genpfault wrote:
       | > 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.
       | 
       | Woo! No more random pile of i386 packages on the host system!
        
         | bpye wrote:
         | I wonder if you could do something similar with QEMU user mode
         | to run x86/x64 Windows applications with native architecture
         | libraries...
         | 
         | Edit: I should have read further down
         | 
         | > The completion of the PE/Unix separation means that it's
         | possible to run existing Windows binaries on ARM64.
        
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