[erlang-patches] Specification of beam_lib:cmp/2 return type

[Raimo Niskanen]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:28:36PM +0200, Paul Guyot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> R14A's beam_lib(3) man page and beam_lib:cmp_rsn() type do not completely cover the actual return type of beam_lib:cmp/2.
> 
> Indeed, beam_lib:cmp/2 can return {error, beam_lib, different_chunks} if there is a non-useless chunk (i.e. a chunk other than "CInf") in Beam1 that is not in Beam2, or reciprocally -- (cf beam_lib.erl, line 352).
> 
> A patch for this specification is available here:
> 
> git fetch git://github.com/pguyot/otp.git pg/beam_lib_cmp_2_return_type_specification

Thank you! It will be included in 'pu'.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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