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-rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo index 6435078ec..e4c4598ce 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo @@ -1317,7 +1317,10 @@ will be mapped into the shell's memory. This is done in such a way that multiple instances of the shell running on the same host will share this mapped function. If neither tt(-r) nor tt(-m) are given, the tt(zcompile) builtin decides which style is used based on the size -of the resulting wordcode file. +of the resulting wordcode file. On some systems it is impossible to +map wordcode files into memory. On such systems, the functions will +only be read from the files, independent on the mode selected when the +file was created. In every case, the created file contains two versions of the wordcode, one for big-endian machines and one for small-endian machines. The |