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authorErlang/OTP <[email protected]>2010-03-22 14:51:35 +0000
committerErlang/OTP <[email protected]>2010-03-22 15:56:43 +0100
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Merge branch 'pan/otp_8332_halfword' into dev
* pan/otp_8332_halfword: Teach testcase in driver_suite the new prototype for driver_async wx: Correct usage of driver callbacks from wx thread Adopt the new (R13B04) Nif functionality to the halfword codebase Support monitoring and demonitoring from driver threads Fix further test-suite problems Correct the VM to work for more test suites Teach {wordsize,internal|external} to system_info/1 Make tracing and distribution work Turn on instruction packing in the loader and virtual machine Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM code Fix the BEAM dissambler for the half-word emulator Store pointers to heap data in 32-bit words Add a custom mmap wrapper to force heaps into the lower address range Fit all heap data into the 32-bit address range
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</item>
<tag><c>wordsize</c></tag>
<item>
- <p>Returns the word size in bytes as an integer, i.e. on a
- 32-bit architecture 4 is returned, and on a 64-bit
- architecture 8 is returned.</p>
+ <p>Same as <c>{wordsize, internal}</c></p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>{wordsize, internal}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Returns the size of Erlang term words in bytes as an
+ integer, i.e. on a 32-bit architecture 4 is returned,
+ and on a pure 64-bit architecture 8 is returned. On a
+ halfword 64-bit emulator, 4 is returned, as the Erlang
+ terms are stored using a virtual wordsize of half the
+ systems wordsize.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>{wordsize, external}</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Returns the true wordsize of the emulator, i.e. the size
+ of a pointer, in bytes as an integer. On a pure 32-bit
+ architecture 4 is returned, on both a halfword and pure
+ 64-bit architecture, 8 is returned.</p>
</item>
</taglist>
<note>