From 72e32b3ccbe232da248db1e7f11591127c973b2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:05:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] %ignore clarification for #1592169

git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk@9540 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22
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 SWIG/Doc/Manual/SWIG.html | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/SWIG/Doc/Manual/SWIG.html b/SWIG/Doc/Manual/SWIG.html
index d13c56bc1..ea0dde01e 100644
--- a/SWIG/Doc/Manual/SWIG.html
+++ b/SWIG/Doc/Manual/SWIG.html
@@ -1701,7 +1701,8 @@ to ignore declarations that match a given identifier.  For example:
 </div>
 
 <p>
-One use of <tt>%ignore</tt> is to selectively remove certain declarations from a header file without having
+Any function, variable etc which matches <tt>%ignore</tt> will not be wrapped and therefore will not be available from the target language.
+A common usage of <tt>%ignore</tt> is to selectively remove certain declarations from a header file without having
 to add conditional compilation to the header.   However, it should be stressed that this only works for simple
 declarations.  If you need to remove a whole section of problematic code, the SWIG preprocessor should be used instead.
 </p>