From 5e843a3721ff53a9a2c0c8a3611cba829640716c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Shahaf Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 03:14:45 +0000 Subject: 45340: internal: Document the difference between paramtab and realparamtab. --- Src/params.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Src') 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; -- cgit 1.4.1