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From d7e9c0f38af73b465206682b4d26cb328aa484b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lukas Larsson <lukas@erlang.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 09:36:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ei: Document allowed arguments to erl_call -a

---
 lib/erl_interface/doc/src/erl_call_cmd.xml | 6 +++++-
 lib/erl_interface/src/prog/erl_call.c      | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/erl_call.xml b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/erl_call.xml
index 19b159d7a3..666cbb6dc4 100644
--- a/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/erl_call.xml
+++ b/lib/erl_interface/doc/src/erl_call.xml
@@ -72,7 +72,11 @@
               <c>Fun</c> and <c>Args</c>, respectively.
               <c>Args</c> is to be in the same format as for
               <seealso marker="erts:erlang#apply/3">
-              <c>erlang:apply/3</c></seealso> in <c>ERTS</c>.</p>
+              <c>erlang:apply/3</c></seealso> in <c>ERTS</c> except only a
+              subset of all terms are allowed. The allowed term types are:
+              <c>list</c> (and <c>string</c> representation of list, that is "example"),
+              <c>tuple</c>, <c>atom</c> and <c>number</c>.
+            </p>
             <p>Notice that this flag takes exactly one argument, so quoting
               can be necessary to group <c>Mod</c>,
               <c>Fun</c>, and <c>Args</c> in a manner
diff --git a/lib/erl_interface/src/prog/erl_call.c b/lib/erl_interface/src/prog/erl_call.c
index 8caf218e0e..b8e11c3f86 100644
--- a/lib/erl_interface/src/prog/erl_call.c
+++ b/lib/erl_interface/src/prog/erl_call.c
@@ -645,7 +645,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
       ei_x_new(&e);		/* No version to ei_rpc() */
       
       if (ei_x_format_wo_ver(&e, args) < 0) {
-	  /* FIXME no error message and why -1 ? */
+          fprintf(stderr, "erl_call: Failed to parse arguments,\n"
+                  "see the documentation for allowed term types.\n"
+                  "Arguments: %s\n", args);
 	  exit(-1);
       }
 
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