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| author | chriseth <chris@ethereum.org> | 2018-04-06 22:39:54 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-04-06 22:39:54 +0800 |
| commit | 12ba3ee082c13414cdb2aefb794b94e5c137de1e (patch) | |
| tree | 9fc119be16c25614e5ff8add295f282c7b9e07d7 | |
| parent | 866df15daa21ff55ebd7084976a32cd698fcdb9e (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #3609 from RobbieFerguson/patch-1
Update Delegatecall Description in Docs
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diff --git a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst index 2571f20a..e7f41ed1 100644 --- a/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst +++ b/docs/units-and-global-variables.rst @@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ For more information, see the section on :ref:`address`. Use a pattern where the recipient withdraws the money. .. note:: + If storage variables are accessed via a low-level delegatecall, the storage layout of the two contracts + must align in order for the called contract to correctly access the storage variables of the calling contract by name. + This is of course not the case if storage pointers are passed as function arguments as in the case for + the high-level libraries. + + +.. note:: The use of ``callcode`` is discouraged and will be removed in the future. .. index:: this, selfdestruct |