Clarification of the meaning of the nByte parameter to sqlite3_prepare().

Comment and documentation change only - no changes to the code.

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diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
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diff --git a/src/sqlite.h.in b/src/sqlite.h.in
index 5546793c9415e26d1d4d7b6b216642df9afac471..72190beec597c4ac102c7aa835abfad4f0bd297b 100644 (file)
--- a/src/sqlite.h.in
+++ b/src/sqlite.h.in
@@ -4222,13 +4222,17 @@ int sqlite3_limit(sqlite3*, int id, int newVal);
 ** and sqlite3_prepare16_v3() use UTF-16.
 **
 ** ^If the nByte argument is negative, then zSql is read up to the
-** first zero terminator. ^If nByte is positive, then it is the
-** number of bytes read from zSql.  ^If nByte is zero, then no prepared
+** first zero terminator. ^If nByte is positive, then it is the maximum
+** number of bytes read from zSql.  When nByte is positive, zSql is read
+** up to the first zero terminator or until the nByte bytes have been read,
+** whichever comes first.  ^If nByte is zero, then no prepared
 ** statement is generated.
 ** If the caller knows that the supplied string is nul-terminated, then
 ** there is a small performance advantage to passing an nByte parameter that
 ** is the number of bytes in the input string <i>including</i>
 ** the nul-terminator.
+** Note that nByte measure the length of the input in bytes, not
+** characters, even for the UTF-16 inferfaces.
 **
 ** ^If pzTail is not NULL then *pzTail is made to point to the first byte
 ** past the end of the first SQL statement in zSql.  These routines only