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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2019-01-22 19:51:06 +0100
committerGitHub <[email protected]>2019-01-22 19:51:06 +0100
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Merge pull request #2089 from richcarl/document-undefined-current_function
Document that current_function can be undefined OTP-15543
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erlang.xml6
-rw-r--r--erts/preloaded/src/erlang.erl2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index aba6082647..92e979c046 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -5186,11 +5186,13 @@ RealSystem = system + MissedSystem</code>
changed or removed without prior notice.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{current_function, {<anno>Module</anno>,
- <anno>Function</anno>, Arity}}</c></tag>
+ <anno>Function</anno>, Arity} | undefined}</c></tag>
<item>
<p><c><anno>Module</anno></c>, <c><anno>Function</anno></c>,
<c><anno>Arity</anno></c> is
- the current function call of the process.</p>
+ the current function call of the process. The value
+ <c>undefined</c> can be returned if the process is
+ currently executing native compiled code.</p>
</item>
<tag><c>{current_location, {<anno>Module</anno>,
<anno>Function</anno>, <anno>Arity</anno>,
diff --git a/erts/preloaded/src/erlang.erl b/erts/preloaded/src/erlang.erl
index 65716def11..a5b60cc845 100644
--- a/erts/preloaded/src/erlang.erl
+++ b/erts/preloaded/src/erlang.erl
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ process_flag(_Flag, _Value) ->
non_neg_integer()}]} |
{catchlevel, CatchLevel :: non_neg_integer()} |
{current_function,
- {Module :: module(), Function :: atom(), Arity :: arity()}} |
+ {Module :: module(), Function :: atom(), Arity :: arity()} | undefined} |
{current_location,
{Module :: module(), Function :: atom(), Arity :: arity(),
Location :: [{file, Filename :: string()} | % not a stack_item()!