From 714570912d678c10f4aa4b6a6692d958e0fc7fe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Siri Hansen <siri@erlang.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 16:40:19 +0200
Subject: Document the order of directories added with code:add_pathsa/1

code:add_pathsa/1 reverts the list of directories when adding it at
the beginning of the code path. The command line option '-pa' behaves
in the same way. This is now documented.
---
 erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'erts/doc/src')

diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
index f62d3fb170..eb1d24cf12 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml
@@ -393,9 +393,11 @@
       <tag><c><![CDATA[-pa Dir1 Dir2 ...]]></c></tag>
       <item>
         <p>Adds the specified directories to the beginning of the code
-          path, similar to <c><![CDATA[code:add_pathsa/1]]></c>; see
-          <seealso marker="kernel:code"><c>code(3)</c></seealso>.
-	  As an alternative to <c>-pa</c>, if several directories are
+          path, similar to <seealso marker="kernel:code#add_pathsa/1">
+	  <c><![CDATA[code:add_pathsa/1]]></c></seealso>. Note that the
+	  order of the given directories will be reversed in the
+	  resulting path.</p>
+	<p>As an alternative to <c>-pa</c>, if several directories are
 	  to be prepended to the code path and the directories have a
 	  common parent directory, that parent directory can be
 	  specified in environment variable <c>ERL_LIBS</c>; see
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