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authornaruse <naruse@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2016-03-29 04:49:00 +0000
committernaruse <naruse@b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e>2016-03-29 04:49:00 +0000
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parent1238d358f14e88fb81907ff39c28befa71219a9b (diff)
merge revision(s) 53299: [Backport #11870]
* compile.c, cont.c, doc, man: fix common misspelling. [ruby-core:72466] [Bug #11870] git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_2_3@54351 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e
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diff --git a/man/ruby.1 b/man/ruby.1
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@@ -506,14 +506,14 @@ as below.
.Pp
.Sh GC ENVIRONMENT
The Ruby garbage collector (GC) tracks objects in fixed-sized slots,
-but each object may have auxillary memory allocations handled by the
+but each object may have auxiliary memory allocations handled by the
malloc family of C standard library calls (
.Xr malloc 3 ,
.Xr calloc 3 ,
and
.Xr realloc 3 ) .
In this documentatation, the "heap" refers to the Ruby object heap
-of fixed-sized slots, while "malloc" refers to auxillary
+of fixed-sized slots, while "malloc" refers to auxiliary
allocations commonly referred to as the "process heap".
Thus there are at least two possible ways to trigger GC:
.Bl -hang -offset indent