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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-04-12 15:58:45 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-04-12 15:58:45 (GMT)
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bpo-43774: Remove --without-cycle-gc doc (GH-25364)
The configure --without-cycle-gc option has been removed in Python 2.3 by the commit cccd1e72481106b0a373117f32fda6261f3141a7. It's now time to remove the last reference to it in the documentation.
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@@ -911,12 +911,7 @@ the cycle itself.
The cycle detector is able to detect garbage cycles and can reclaim them.
The :mod:`gc` module exposes a way to run the detector (the
:func:`~gc.collect` function), as well as configuration
-interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime. The cycle
-detector is considered an optional component; though it is included by default,
-it can be disabled at build time using the :option:`!--without-cycle-gc` option
-to the :program:`configure` script on Unix platforms (including Mac OS X). If
-the cycle detector is disabled in this way, the :mod:`gc` module will not be
-available.
+interfaces and the ability to disable the detector at runtime.
.. _refcountsinpython: