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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libgc.tex | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/ACKS | 1 |
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgc.tex b/Doc/lib/libgc.tex index b332fe22dc..67ac64f7e4 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libgc.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libgc.tex @@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ Return the list of objects that directly refer to any of objs. This function will only locate those containers which support garbage collection; extension types which do refer to other objects but do not support garbage collection will not be found. + +Note that objects which have already been dereferenced, but which live +in cycles and have not yet been collected by the garbage collector can +be listed among the resulting referrers. To get only currently live +objects, call \function{collect()} before calling +\function{get_referrers()}. + \versionadded{2.2} \end{funcdesc} @@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ Edward Welbourne Rickard Westman Truida Wiedijk Gerry Wiener +Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn Sue Williams Frank Willison Greg V. Wilson |