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diff --git a/rts/Task.h b/rts/Task.h
index cf12ca232c..9b6a8e8d7b 100644
--- a/rts/Task.h
+++ b/rts/Task.h
@@ -149,8 +149,8 @@ typedef struct Task_ {
struct InCall_ *spare_incalls;
bool worker; // == true if this is a worker Task
- bool stopped; // == true between newBoundTask and
- // boundTaskExiting, or in a worker Task.
+ bool stopped; // == false between newBoundTask and
+ // exitMyTask, or in a worker Task.
// So that we can detect when a finalizer illegally calls back into Haskell
bool running_finalizers;
@@ -200,9 +200,9 @@ extern Mutex all_tasks_mutex;
void initTaskManager (void);
uint32_t freeTaskManager (void);
-// Create a new Task for a bound thread. This Task must be released
-// by calling boundTaskExiting. The Task is cached in
-// thread-local storage and will remain even after boundTaskExiting()
+// Create a new Task for a bound thread. This Task must be released
+// by calling exitMyTask(). The Task is cached in
+// thread-local storage and will remain even after exitMyTask()
// has been called; to free the memory, see freeMyTask().
//
Task* newBoundTask (void);
@@ -210,11 +210,10 @@ Task* newBoundTask (void);
// Return the current OS thread's Task, which is created if it doesn't already
// exist. After you have finished using RTS APIs, you should call freeMyTask()
// to release this thread's Task.
-Task* getTask (void);
+Task* getMyTask (void);
-// The current task is a bound task that is exiting.
-//
-void boundTaskExiting (Task *task);
+// Exit myTask - This is the counterpart of newBoundTask().
+void exitMyTask (void);
// Free a Task if one was previously allocated by newBoundTask().
// This is not necessary unless the thread that called newBoundTask()