Merge pull request #1992 from bjorng/bjorn/stdlib/beam_lib/ERL-696

beam_lib: Clarify the beam() type in code and documentation

OTP-15378

3 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/hipe/main/hipe.erl b/lib/hipe/main/hipe.erl
index ac2e6c1e3b..e2cb9c0f0b 100644
--- a/lib/hipe/main/hipe.erl
+++ b/lib/hipe/main/hipe.erl
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ file(File) ->
 				|  {'error', term()}
 				     when Mod :: mod().
 file(File, Options) when is_atom(File) ->
-  case beam_lib:info(File) of
+  case beam_lib:info(atom_to_list(File)) of
     L when is_list(L) ->
       {module, Mod} = lists:keyfind(module, 1, L),
       case compile(Mod, File, Options) of
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml
index 26d0724aaf..213170df7f 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml
+++ b/lib/stdlib/doc/src/beam_lib.xml
@@ -180,8 +180,8 @@ io:fwrite("~s~n", [erl_prettypr:format(erl_syntax:form_list(AC))]).</code>
       <name name="beam"/>
       <desc>
         <p>Each of the functions described below accept either the
-          module name, the filename, or a binary containing the BEAM
-          module.</p>
+        filename (as a string) or a binary containing the BEAM
+        module.</p>
       </desc>
     </datatype>
     <datatype>
diff --git a/lib/stdlib/src/beam_lib.erl b/lib/stdlib/src/beam_lib.erl
index 01181b1097..3386cfcbe6 100644
--- a/lib/stdlib/src/beam_lib.erl
+++ b/lib/stdlib/src/beam_lib.erl
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
 
 %%-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
--type beam() :: module() | file:filename() | binary().
+-type beam() :: file:filename() | binary().
 -type debug_info() :: {DbgiVersion :: atom(), Backend :: module(), Data :: term()} | 'no_debug_info'.
 
 -type forms()     :: [erl_parse:abstract_form() | erl_parse:form_info()].