Commit ed82e4f7ac

Kirk Scheibelhut <kjs@scheibo.com>
2023-10-19 23:32:44
langref: update to document --error-limit flag
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doc/langref.html.in
@@ -5373,8 +5373,9 @@ test "fn reflection" {
       gets assigned the same integer value.
       </p>
       <p>
-      The number of unique error values across the entire compilation should determine the size of the error set type.
-      However right now it is hard coded to be a {#syntax#}u16{#endsyntax#}. See <a href="https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/786">#786</a>.
+      The error set type defaults to a {#syntax#}u16{#endsyntax#}, though if the maximum number of distinct
+      error values is provided via the <kbd>--error-limit [num]</kbd> command line parameter an integer type
+      with the minimum number of bits required to represent all of the error values will be used.
       </p>
       <p>
       You can {#link|coerce|Type Coercion#} an error from a subset to a superset: