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| author | Facundo DomÃnguez <facundo.dominguez@tweag.io> | 2017-11-15 11:37:32 -0500 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2017-11-15 11:37:55 -0500 |
| commit | 6dfe9828e2b3bd79e22e89c919b0d1b92273b718 (patch) | |
| tree | 9cf6e590dc602a2c2f4388a8a4924325e74908c5 /libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs | |
| parent | f5dc8ccc29429d0a1d011f62b6b430f6ae50290c (diff) | |
| download | haskell-6dfe9828e2b3bd79e22e89c919b0d1b92273b718.tar.gz | |
StaticPointers: Clarify documentation
* Document requirement to use the same binaries.
* Fix some code comments.
Test Plan: ./validate
Reviewers: bgamari, mboes, hvr
Reviewed By: bgamari, mboes
Subscribers: rwbarton, thomie
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4172
Diffstat (limited to 'libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs')
| -rw-r--r-- | libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs b/libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs index 65ec483577..92829acb73 100644 --- a/libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs +++ b/libraries/base/GHC/StaticPtr.hs @@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ -- table is known as the Static Pointer Table. The reference can then be -- dereferenced to obtain the value. -- +-- The various communicating processes need to aggree on the keys used to refer +-- to the values in the Static Pointer Table, or lookups will fail. Only +-- processes launched from the same program binary are guaranteed to use the +-- same set of keys. +-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- module GHC.StaticPtr |