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| author | Alex Beregszaszi <alex@rtfs.hu> | 2018-08-01 23:23:06 +0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-08-01 23:23:06 +0800 |
| commit | 1f832e068b2d2c79fff870742d867b655b62f691 (patch) | |
| tree | 92ced4e8c40fe9aecdcb77363dcd34802113e47f /docs/contracts.rst | |
| parent | ce99a5ce7f98b3dfb86ea8397a5117332af33f2a (diff) | |
| parent | 0ad646635f6970de266138d4bdb3f1970406adfb (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #4639 from ethereum/docs-fix-specify-limit
Small clarifications around the 2300 gas stipend from transfer and send
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diff --git a/docs/contracts.rst b/docs/contracts.rst index e87c8a67..2149167b 100644 --- a/docs/contracts.rst +++ b/docs/contracts.rst @@ -563,7 +563,10 @@ Ether (without data). Additionally, in order to receive Ether, the fallback func must be marked ``payable``. If no such function exists, the contract cannot receive Ether through regular transactions. -In the worst case, the fallback function can only rely on 2300 gas being available (for example when send or transfer is used), leaving not much room to perform other operations except basic logging. The following operations will consume more gas than the 2300 gas stipend: +In the worst case, the fallback function can only rely on 2300 gas being +available (for example when `send` or `transfer` is used), leaving little +room to perform other operations except basic logging. The following operations +will consume more gas than the 2300 gas stipend: - Writing to storage - Creating a contract |