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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Src/params.c | 8 |
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 71bdf9593..625e4a639 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2020-01-23 Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org> + + * 45340: Src/params.c: internal: Document the difference between + paramtab and realparamtab. + 2020-01-19 Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> * 45332: Completion/Unix/Command/_git: add completion for diff --git a/Src/params.c b/Src/params.c index 5eaafe34e..863b32600 100644 --- a/Src/params.c +++ b/Src/params.c @@ -478,7 +478,13 @@ static initparam argvparam_pm = IPDEF9("", &pparams, NULL, \ static Param argvparam; -/* hash table containing the parameters */ +/* "parameter table" - hash table containing the parameters + * + * realparamtab always points to the shell's global table. paramtab is sometimes + * temporarily changed to point at another table, while dealing with the keys + * of an associative array (for example, see makecompparams() which initializes + * the associative array ${compstate}). + */ /**/ mod_export HashTable paramtab, realparamtab; |