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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-02-23 21:05:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2016-02-24 17:04:01 +0100 |
| commit | 1b094d72ffc56069c72f17c7edd673dbbfe47e39 (patch) | |
| tree | 45675d9bc82b8496765bee32831de2501471ebae /erts/doc | |
| parent | 56090db3ea417157a749bdd810fc61d117493f1f (diff) | |
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erts: Make erlang:halt() accept bignums as Status
Just mask away the high bits to get a more tolerant erlang:halt
that behaves the same on 32 and 64 bit architectures.
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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index c37ed3bea5..7926157fa5 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -1794,7 +1794,8 @@ os_prompt% </pre> </item> </taglist> <note><p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status - codes 0-255.</p></note> + codes 0-255. A too large status code will be truncated by clearing + the high bits.</p></note> <p>For integer <c><anno>Status</anno></c>, the Erlang runtime system closes all ports and allows async threads to finish their operations before exiting. To exit without such flushing, use |