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diff --git a/doc/refcounting.txt b/doc/refcounting.txt index a3cd02058..a27fb21fb 100644 --- a/doc/refcounting.txt +++ b/doc/refcounting.txt @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ as it added and removed them. ANCHORED OBJECTS -The garbage collector can see pointers in: +As a rule of thumb, the garbage collector can see pointers in: * global/static variables in the program @@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ It cannot see pointers in: Since a lot of important objects (e.g. gtkmm widgets or Glib collections) fall into the latter category, I've provided the GC::Anchored class from which garbage-collector managed classes can be derived if they may be -remembered exclusively by such places. As noted earlier, the associated -ref and unref functions are GC::anchor() and GC::release(), respectively. +remembered in such places. As noted earlier, the associated ref and unref +functions are GC::anchor() and GC::release(), respectively. For most refcounted objects, a nonzero refcount means "this object is in use", and a zero refcount means "this object is no longer in use, you can |