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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-01-26 20:11:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-01-26 20:11:50 (GMT) |
| commit | ef180dc3d0254264c71436358f4b2ecf73cfeb6e (patch) | |
| tree | e3b072c8ac2602cb14b171ecd343b78ec9a74823 /Doc/lib/libgc.tex | |
| parent | fb0da9d7709057695087f8ca280904c9ef84b11f (diff) | |
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Document that get_referrers can return unreachable but uncollected objects.
Fixes #505453.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libgc.tex b/Doc/lib/libgc.tex index b332fe2..67ac64f 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} |