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INSTALL.md: Clarify --with-lg-vaddr.
The current wording can be taken to imply that we return tagged pointers to the user, or otherwise rely on architectural support for them.
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@@ -262,11 +262,10 @@ any of the following arguments (not a definitive list) to 'configure':
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* `--with-lg-vaddr=<lg-vaddr>`
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Specify the number of significant virtual address bits. jemalloc uses
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pointer tagging if the pointer size is bigger than the required size for
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virtual addresses. By default the configure script determines this via CPUID
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information on x86_64 and uses default values for other architectures. This
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option may be useful when cross compiling.
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Specify the number of significant virtual address bits. By default, the
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configure script attempts to detect virtual address size on those platforms
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where it knows how, and picks a default otherwise. This option may be
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useful when cross-compiling.
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* `--disable-initial-exec-tls`
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