diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/stack-size-macos.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/stack-size-macos.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b1c40bb5a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/stack-size-macos.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +synopsis: Stack size is increased on macOS +prs: 9860 +--- + +Previously, Nix would set the stack size to 64MiB on Linux, but would leave the +stack size set to the default (approximately 8KiB) on macOS. Now, the stack +size is correctly set to 64MiB on macOS as well, which should reduce stack +overflow segfaults in deeply-recursive Nix expressions.