From 2cec084e45392e0b0d198254017b140accee32f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Austin Seipp Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 16:17:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Note infinite stack default in release notes." This reverts commit c798a8c6c66d826efdc0201fa56d45337eecc2af. --- docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml | 21 --------------------- 1 file changed, 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml index 2021fc61a8..15bf82bc68 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml @@ -344,27 +344,6 @@ - - - By default, the maximum stack size in the runtime - system is now infinite. This is controlled by the - +RTS -K flag, which was - previously defaulted to 8MB. In general, this - will allow more programs to run as they will no - longer stack overflow as quickly, although they - may use much more memory. - - - - Note that you will still eventually encounter a - stack overflow - when the heap is completely - exhausted, as stacks are serviced from the - storage manager. This will cause a runtime abort - after invoking - StackOverflowHook. - - - The performance of StablePtrs and -- GitLab