From 53dcd92be965d35ef53a27efda0597b2961921ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sverker Eriksson <sverker@erlang.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 19:42:31 +0100
Subject: erts: Update docs for erlang:purge_module/1

---
 erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'erts/doc/src')

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 8ddbd95de5..72d08a03fe 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -4870,6 +4870,12 @@ os_prompt% </pre>
             <seealso marker="kernel:code">code(3)</seealso>)
             and is not to be used elsewhere.</p>
         </warning>
+        <note>
+	  <p>As from <c>ERTS</c> 8.0 (OTP 19), any lingering processes
+	   that still execute the old code will be killed by this function.
+	   In earlier versions, such incorrect use could cause much
+	   more fatal failures, like emulator crash.</p>
+        </note>
         <p>Failure: <c>badarg</c> if there is no old code for
           <c><anno>Module</anno></c>.</p>
       </desc>
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