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-rw-r--r--Src/params.c8
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
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;