From: Ivo Raisr Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 22:29:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Minor clarification for r15880. X-Git-Tag: svn/VALGRIND_3_12_0~142 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=38e4b15eb083e37547faacea5b79c4a981734b04;p=thirdparty%2Fvalgrind.git Minor clarification for r15880. git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@15881 --- diff --git a/docs/xml/manual-core.xml b/docs/xml/manual-core.xml index 34cb2c6bc9..73349957bb 100644 --- a/docs/xml/manual-core.xml +++ b/docs/xml/manual-core.xml @@ -2779,9 +2779,9 @@ subject to the following constraints: - Valgrind determines at startup the size of the 'brk segment' - using the RLIMIT_DATA rlim_cur, with a minimum of 1 MB and a - maximum of 8 MB. Valgrind outputs a message each time a program + On Linux, Valgrind determines at startup the size of the 'brk + segment' using the RLIMIT_DATA rlim_cur, with a minimum of 1 MB and + a maximum of 8 MB. Valgrind outputs a message each time a program tries to extend the brk segment beyond the size determined at startup. Most programs will work properly with this limit, typically by switching to the use of mmap to get more memory.