From 1b094d72ffc56069c72f17c7edd673dbbfe47e39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:05:03 +0100
Subject: erts: Make erlang:halt() accept bignums as Status

Just mask away the high bits to get a more tolerant erlang:halt
that behaves the same on 32 and 64 bit architectures.
---
 erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'erts/doc/src')

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index c37ed3bea5..7926157fa5 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -1794,7 +1794,8 @@ os_prompt% </pre>
 	  </item>
 	</taglist>
         <note><p>On many platforms, the OS supports only status
-        codes 0-255.</p></note>
+        codes 0-255. A too large status code will be truncated by clearing
+	the high bits.</p></note>
 	<p>For integer <c><anno>Status</anno></c>, the Erlang runtime system
           closes all ports and allows async threads to finish their
           operations before exiting. To exit without such flushing, use
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