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@@ -615,6 +615,28 @@
debugging.</item>
</taglist>
</item>
+ <tag><marker id="+pc"/><marker id="max_processes"><c><![CDATA[+pc Range]]></c></marker></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>Sets the range of characters that the system will consider printable in heuristic detection of strings. This typically affects the shell, debugger and io:format functions (when ~tp is used in the format string).</p>
+ <p>Currently two values for the <c>Range</c> are supported:
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>latin1</c></tag> <item>The default. Only characters
+ in the ISO-latin-1 range can be considered printable, which means
+ that a character with a code point &gt; 255 will never be
+ considered printable and that lists containing such
+ characters will be displayed as lists of integers rather
+ than text strings by tools.</item>
+ <tag><c>unicode</c></tag>
+ <item>All printable Unicode characters are considered when
+ determining if a list of integers is to be displayed in
+ string syntax. This may give unexpected results if for
+ example your font does not cover all Unicode
+ characters.</item>
+ </taglist>
+ </p>
+ <p>Se also <seealso marker="stdlib:io#printable_range/0">
+ io:printable_range/0</seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
<tag><marker id="+P"/><marker id="max_processes"><c><![CDATA[+P Number]]></c></marker></tag>
<item>
<p>Sets the maximum number of simultaneously existing processes for this
@@ -985,15 +1007,12 @@
documentation of the <seealso marker="#+sbt">+sbt</seealso> flag.
</p>
</item>
- <tag><marker id="+sws"><c>+sws default|legacy|proposal</c></marker></tag>
+ <tag><marker id="+sws"><c>+sws default|legacy</c></marker></tag>
<item>
- <p>Set scheduler wakeup strategy. Default is <c>legacy</c> (has been
- used since OTP-R13B). The <c>proposal</c> strategy is the currently
- proposed strategy for OTP-R16. Note that the <c>proposal</c> strategy
- might change during OTP-R15.
+ <p>
+ Set scheduler wakeup strategy. Default strategy changed in erts-5.10/OTP-R16A. This strategy was previously known as <c>proposal</c> in OTP-R15. The <c>legacy</c> strategy was used as default from R13 up to and including R15.
</p>
- <p><em>NOTE:</em> This flag may be removed or changed at any time
- without prior notice.
+ <p><em>NOTE:</em> This flag may be removed or changed at any time without prior notice.
</p>
</item>
<tag><marker id="+swt"><c>+swt very_low|low|medium|high|very_high</c></marker></tag>