From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:37:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Charles G. Waldman <cgw@fnal.gov>:
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~282
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=093272ea85a47181cdf7b9e5ba1938b5a48271df;p=python

Charles G. Waldman <cgw@fnal.gov>:
Update the dis module documentation to reflect the EXTENDED_ARG opcode.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libdis.tex b/Doc/lib/libdis.tex
index e0698ffbb8..b89bf3dffd 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libdis.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libdis.tex
@@ -532,6 +532,13 @@ See the \code{slice()}\bifuncindex{slice} built-in function for more
 information.
 \end{opcodedesc}
 
+\begin{opcodedesc}{EXTENDED_ARG}{ext}
+Prefixes any opcode which has an argument too big to fit into the
+default two bytes.  \var{ext} holds two additional bytes which, taken
+together with the subsequent opcode's argument, comprise a four-byte
+argument, \var {ext} being the two most-significant bytes.
+\end{opcodedesc}
+
 \begin{opcodedesc}{CALL_FUNCTION_VAR}{argc}
 Calls a function. \var{argc} is interpreted as in \code{CALL_FUNCTION}.
 The top element on the stack contains the variable argument list, followed