diff --git a/stb_image.h b/stb_image.h
index 87ae770..3057481 100644
--- a/stb_image.h
+++ b/stb_image.h
@@ -187,6 +187,24 @@ RECENT REVISION HISTORY:
 //   // returns ok=1 and sets x, y, n if image is a supported format,
 //   // 0 otherwise.
 //
+// Note that stb_image pervasively uses ints in its public API for sizes,
+// including sizes of memory buffers. This is now part of the API and thus
+// hard to change without causing breakage. As a result, the various image
+// loaders all have certain limits on image size; these differ somewhat
+// by format but generally boil down to either just under 2GB or just under
+// 1GB. When the decoded image would be larger than this, stb_image decoding
+// will fail.
+//
+// Additionally, stb_image will reject image files that have any of their
+// dimensions set to a larger value than the configurable STBI_MAX_DIMENSIONS,
+// which defaults to 2**24 = 16777216 pixels. Due to the above memory limit,
+// the only way to have an image with such dimensions load correctly
+// is for it to have a rather extreme aspect ratio. Either way, the
+// assumption here is that such larger images are likely to be malformed
+// or malicious. If you do need to load an image with individual dimensions
+// larger than that, and it still fits in the overall size limit, you can
+// #define STBI_MAX_DIMENSIONS on your own to be something larger.
+//
 // ===========================================================================
 //
 // UNICODE: