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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 toadlife · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...the worlds most insecure operating system... Why do you fanbiois always have to bring Linux into the discussion?

    Might as well pin a hundred dollar bill to your ass and yell, "Victim Here!" You're making the Mac users here hard.
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  2. Re:Win32 on OS X -- goodness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bingo! Give the man a cigar! He's a Mac user. He's probably already "smoking" a "cigar".
  3. 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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  4. malware, report to Google... by swschrad · · Score: -1, Troll

    I personally don't want the Windoze Virus on my mac.

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  5. 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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