From 9f7ef6a5dc65b8d89d552eb166782bc150e73e79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:30:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify stack limit. --- doc/vm.texi | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/vm.texi b/doc/vm.texi index 8ea6ee4..982cdcb 100644 --- a/doc/vm.texi +++ b/doc/vm.texi @@ -501,8 +501,9 @@ not be restartable in a straightforward fashion.) Similarly, the bytes below the stack pointer. You may impose some absolute limit on stack size, as do most OSes. -(Some OSes make the limit user-adjustable, e.g.@: with the -@command{ulimit} command on many Unix systems.) +Some OSes make the limit user-adjustable, e.g.@: with the +@command{ulimit} command on many Unix systems. On many GNU/Linux systems, +the default limit is 8 MB. The first stack page need not be allocated lazily. You can initialize it with the command line arguments at load time, with no need to wait -- 2.30.2