gen_server code_change

[Peter H|gfeldt]

Of the high-level code replacement instructions, only *update* can 
cause the code_change function to be called. It does that if and only
if the Change element of the instruction is equal to {advanced, Extra}.

/Peter   
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Tony Pedley wrote:

> Hi,
> I had always assumed up to now that the gen_server callback function
> code_change was called
> automatically when a new gen_server module was loaded into the Erlang
> shell(i.e l(Module))
> This was partly due to my reading of the Erlang Reference Manual
> 
> However in pursuit of a ongoing bug, I have begun to doubt that notion,
> even to the point
> of writing a simple gen_server and trying it. I have so far been unable
> to generate a code_change event.
> 
> So the question is, in a gen_server does the code_change function have
> to be called explicitly by some
> release script or is it triggered by the actual process of loading a new
> module?
> 
> If it is the latter is there any case when the function is not called?
> (version numbers, identical code size etc)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tony
>