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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2019-05-22 18:22:51 +0200
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2019-05-22 18:25:43 +0200
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Merge branch 'sverker/stdlib/binary-referenced_byte_size-doc' into maint
PR-2245 ERL-914 * sverker/stdlib/binary-referenced_byte_size-doc: stdlib: Improve example for binary:referenced_byte_size/1
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-rw-r--r--lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml15
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml
index f3d4edd30f..fd991f258b 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/binary.xml
@@ -505,15 +505,16 @@ store(Binary, GBSet) ->
&lt;&lt;1,1,1,1,1 ...
2> byte_size(A).
100
-3> binary:referenced_byte_size(A)
+3> binary:referenced_byte_size(A).
100
-4> &lt;&lt;_:10/binary,B:10/binary,_/binary&gt;&gt; = A.
+4> &lt;&lt;B:10/binary, C:90/binary&gt;&gt; = A.
&lt;&lt;1,1,1,1,1 ...
-5> byte_size(B).
-10
-6> binary:referenced_byte_size(B)
-100</code>
-
+5> {byte_size(B), binary:referenced_byte_size(B)}.
+{10,10}
+6> {byte_size(C), binary:referenced_byte_size(C)}.
+{90,100}</code>
+ <p>In the above example, the small binary <c>B</c> was copied while the
+ larger binary <c>C</c> references binary <c>A</c>.</p>
<note>
<p>Binary data is shared among processes. If another process
still references the larger binary, copying the part this