From 00df3ec75bd30a98226dc5758a142e49f7c434f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sa=C3=BAl=20Ibarra=20Corretg=C3=A9?= <saghul@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:14:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify uv_loop_t.data field lifetime

Fixes #1503
---
 docs/src/loop.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/src/loop.rst b/docs/src/loop.rst
index bc2afe2f..c63ef7eb 100644
--- a/docs/src/loop.rst
+++ b/docs/src/loop.rst
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ Public members
 
 .. c:member:: void* uv_loop_t.data
 
-    Space for user-defined arbitrary data. libuv does not use this field.
+    Space for user-defined arbitrary data. libuv does not use this field. libuv does, however,
+    initialize it to NULL in :c:func:`uv_loop_init`, and it poisons the value (on debug builds)
+    on :c:func:`uv_loop_close`.
 
 
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