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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?"

2 of 397 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Not for Win32 compatibility by jcr · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is that enough of a quantification for you?

    Nope. Do you even know what "quantification" means?

    -jcr

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  2. Re:noooo FP by Wiseman1024 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Certainly, you already have enough malware coming from Apple itself. Who needs even more digital restrictions management and buggy software?

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