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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2019-02-05 20:34:59 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2019-02-05 20:34:59 +0100
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Merge branch 'rickard/ei-ext/OTP-15442' into rickard/ei-ext-maint/OTP-15442
* rickard/ei-ext/OTP-15442: Introduce ei_init() Fix bug in ei_accept_tmo Fix build of erl_interface on BSD
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@@ -162,12 +162,20 @@ $ ld -L/usr/local/otp/lib/erl_interface-3.2.3/
</section>
<section>
- <title>Initializing the Erl_Interface Library</title>
- <p>Before calling any of the other <c>Erl_Interface</c> functions, call
- <c>erl_init()</c> exactly once to initialize the library.
+ <title>Initializing the Libraries</title>
+ <p>
+ Before calling any of the other functions in the <c>erl_interface</c>
+ and <c>ei</c> libraries, call <c>erl_init()</c> exactly once to initialize
+ both libraries.
<c>erl_init()</c> takes two arguments. However, the arguments
- are no longer used by <c>Erl_Interface</c> and are therefore to be
- specified as <c>erl_init(NULL,0)</c>.</p>
+ are no longer used by <c>erl_interface</c> and are therefore to be
+ specified as <c>erl_init(NULL,0)</c>.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ If you only use the <c>ei</c> library, instead initialize it by calling
+ <c>ei_init()</c> exactly once before calling any other functions in
+ the <c>ei</c> library.
+ </p>
</section>
<section>