From 1652a908c7917b9e08680c9d137906179ee3d312 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Barzilay Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 01:33:57 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Make the disabled places comment more prominent. (cherry picked from commit 84ec108c32a536c8238ca6861ab6aac7eda33db8) --- collects/scribblings/reference/places.scrbl | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/collects/scribblings/reference/places.scrbl b/collects/scribblings/reference/places.scrbl index aef84adfb3..3e0d1b3e2a 100644 --- a/collects/scribblings/reference/places.scrbl +++ b/collects/scribblings/reference/places.scrbl @@ -22,13 +22,12 @@ hardware threads. @note-lib[racket/place] -@margin-note{Currently, parallel support for @racket[place] is is only enabled if you pass -@DFlag{enable-places} to @exec{configure} when you build Racket (and -that build currently only works with @exec{racket}, not with -@exec{gracket}). When parallel-places support is not enabled, -@racket[place] usage is a syntax error. -Places is only supported on Linux x86/x86_64, and Mac OS X -x86/x86_64 platforms.} +Note: currently, parallel support for @racket[place] is disabled by +default, and using it will raise an exception. Support can only be +enabled if you build Racket yourself, and pass @DFlag{enable-places} to +@exec{configure}. This works only for @exec{racket} (not +@exec{gracket}), and it is supported only on Linux x86/x86_64, and Mac +OS X x86/x86_64 platforms. @defproc[(place [module-path module-path?] [start-proc symbol?]) place?]{ Starts running @racket[start-proc] in parallel. @racket[start-proc] must