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-rw-r--r--absl/base/internal/thread_identity.h5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/absl/base/internal/thread_identity.h b/absl/base/internal/thread_identity.h
index 463acbc7..b99c9575 100644
--- a/absl/base/internal/thread_identity.h
+++ b/absl/base/internal/thread_identity.h
@@ -170,7 +170,10 @@ struct ThreadIdentity {
//
// Does not malloc(*), and is async-signal safe.
// [*] Technically pthread_setspecific() does malloc on first use; however this
-// is handled internally within tcmalloc's initialization already.
+// is handled internally within tcmalloc's initialization already. Note that
+// darwin does *not* use tcmalloc, so this can catch you if using MallocHooks
+// on Apple platforms. Whatever function is calling your MallocHooks will need
+// to watch for recursion on Apple platforms.
//
// New ThreadIdentity objects can be constructed and associated with a thread
// by calling GetOrCreateCurrentThreadIdentity() in per-thread-sem.h.