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authorJohn Högberg <[email protected]>2018-09-24 08:03:21 +0200
committerJohn Högberg <[email protected]>2018-09-28 11:40:12 +0200
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hipe: Document new limitations and disable known failing tests
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@@ -62,6 +62,13 @@
and the runtime system that have limited or no support for HiPE compiled modules.
</p>
<taglist>
+ <tag>Binary matching</tag>
+ <item><p>The HiPE compiler will crash on modules containing binary
+ matching unless they have been compiled with the <c>+no_bsm3</c> flag.
+ Note that this will disable all related optimizations done by the BEAM
+ compiler.</p>
+ </item>
+
<tag>Stack traces</tag>
<item><p>Stack traces returned from <seealso marker="erts:erlang#get_stacktrace/0">
<c>erlang:get_stacktrace/0</c></seealso> or as part of <c>'EXIT'</c> terms