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| author | Andreas Klebinger <klebinger.andreas@gmx.at> | 2020-09-17 14:53:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-09-19 15:50:33 -0400 |
| commit | 8f8d51f137ffcdbc4432febc5d1a11a564807b1b (patch) | |
| tree | f9387e7ca4c611fb2902d188fb29ba3db2d19c2c | |
| parent | f1accd00969e0b2993f14ee4ed858cea0c13357e (diff) | |
| download | haskell-8f8d51f137ffcdbc4432febc5d1a11a564807b1b.tar.gz | |
Fix docs who misstated how the RTS treats size suffixes.
They are parsed as multiples of 1024. Not 1000. The docs
used to imply otherwise.
See decodeSize in rts/RtsFlags.c for the logic for this.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst b/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst index 2cbcf74047..4c5c437753 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.rst @@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ command line to go to the program (and not the RTS), use a the program, while ``--`` will. As always, for RTS options that take ⟨size⟩s: If the last character of -⟨size⟩ is a K or k, multiply by 1000; if an M or m, by 1,000,000; if a G -or G, by 1,000,000,000. (And any wraparound in the counters is *your* +⟨size⟩ is a K or k, multiply by 1024; if an M or m, by 1024*1024; if a G +or G, by 1024^3. (And any wraparound in the counters is *your* fault!) Giving a ``+RTS -?`` RTS option will print out the RTS |