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authorDave Brolley <brolley@redhat.com>2008-08-29 16:10:01 -0400
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@@ -495,7 +495,9 @@ found. Because of possible concurrency limits, such as multiple probe handlers,
each global variable used by a probe is automatically read- or write-locked
while the handler is running. A global declaration may be written at the
outermost level anywhere in a script file, not just within a block of code.
-The following declaration marks \texttt{var1} and \texttt{var2} as global.
+Global variables which are written but never read will be displayed
+automatically at session shutdown. The following declaration marks
+\texttt{var1} and \texttt{var2} as global.
The translator will infer a value type for each, and if the variable is used
as an array, its key types.