From 7f8960d0f29991d6df8320059378d67530b45c50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rebecca Turner Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 12:35:06 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add release notes for "Stack size is increased on macOS" --- doc/manual/rl-next/stack-size-macos.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/manual/rl-next/stack-size-macos.md 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.