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| author | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2013-11-27 19:42:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Sverker Eriksson <[email protected]> | 2013-11-27 19:42:46 +0100 |
| commit | 06188473247fd1edc873d82cf07886fa7e53e8cb (patch) | |
| tree | 9da8184924da8ba79c6c157acf0d878ab89a1cb4 /erts/doc | |
| parent | 6603481b4612cdc83529cdecc86d5206b99674fd (diff) | |
| parent | f32368c4b34c86aa772a372cdb3c306a79127185 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'sverk/bin2term-bitstr-bugs/OTP-11479' into maint
* sverk/bin2term-bitstr-bugs/OTP-11479:
erts: Fix bug in binary_to_term for binaries larger than 2^31
erts: Fix bugs in binary_to_term for invalid bitstrings
Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index c6849f3326..64a201cc8f 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -1014,10 +1014,10 @@ </row> <tcaption></tcaption></table> <p> - This term represents a bitstring whose length in bits is not a - multiple of 8 (created using the bit syntax in R12B and later). + This term represents a bitstring whose length in bits does + not have to be a multiple of 8. The <c>Len</c> field is an unsigned 4 byte integer (big endian). - The <c>Bits</c> field is the number of bits that are used + The <c>Bits</c> field is the number of bits (1-8) that are used in the last byte in the data field, counting from the most significant bit towards the least significant. |