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Native Windows PE File Loading on OS X?

Posted by Zonk on from the to-what-purpose-and-determination dept.

ozmanjusri writes "Coders working on Wine for Mac have found that the Mac loader has gained its own undocumented ability to load and understand Windows Portable Executable (PE) files. They found PE loading capabilities in Leopard that weren't there in Tiger. Further dissection showed that Apple is masking references to 'Win' and 'PE' in the dll, which means it's not an accidental inclusion. Is Apple planning native PE execution within OS X?"

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  1. Re:noooo FP by tacocat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Exactly what I was thinking!!!

    I can't imagine why anyone in their right mind would do anything to allow the worlds most insecure operating system to gain access of any kind to their hardware. Might as well pin a hundred dollar bill to your ass and yell, "Victim Here!"

  2. Well I guess It is really time to down grade by BeeazleBub · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well with all the issues in Leapard (probably explained here by the inclusion of any thing windows), this is really news to make me dump the upgrade.

    Who is the stupid bone head who would ever include direct windows compatibility code in OSX. There is absolutely no reason on the planet to ever include any compatibility for Windows in OSX. Preaching to the choir but the security sucks, there are more bugs than words in Websters, and over all its a pain to use.

    Stupid, Stupid, Stupid..........

  3. Re:noooo FP by frup · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The trouble is they have NIH and so won't just work with the wine project.