1.0.3.39: larger heap size for x86-64/darwin

[sbcl.git] / README

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+++ b/README
@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@ system, please send mail to one of the mailing lists:
 
 SYSTEM-SPECIFIC HINTS
 
+for NetBSD:
+  NetBSD 2.0 and above are required because of the lack of needed
+  signal APIs in NetBSD 1.6 and earlier.
+
 for OpenBSD:
   OpenBSD 3.0 has stricter ulimit values, and/or enforces them more
   strictly, than its predecessors. Therefore SBCL's initial mmap()
@@ -37,3 +41,13 @@ for OpenBSD:
   is just allocating this huge address space, not actually using this
   huge memory at this point. OpenBSD <3.0 had no problem with this,
   but OpenBSD 3.0 is less hospitable.)
+
+for Darwin:
+  PURIFY (which can be used alone but is also used by the system when
+  saving a new core) uses more stack than the default limit on MacOS
+  X.2.  Therefore, in order to get PURIFY to work reliably, you need
+  to increase the limit, with e.g.
+    limit stack 8192 # for the default shell, tcsh
+    ulimit -s 8192 # for bash
+  before running SBCL.  This is also necessary when building the system
+  from sources, as part of the build process involves saving a new core.