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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +Tue Apr 14 08:59:04 2015 Zachary Scott <e@zzak.io> + + * gc.c: [DOC] Improve documentation for ObjectSpace.count_objects + with regards to `:TOTAL` key, with patch by @schneems [Fixes GH-871] + https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/871 [Bug #11067] + Mon Apr 13 22:44:07 2015 Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> * test/lib/envutil.rb (File.mkfifo): Defined using mkfifo command. @@ -3056,7 +3056,7 @@ set_zero(st_data_t key, st_data_t val, st_data_t arg) * call-seq: * ObjectSpace.count_objects([result_hash]) -> hash * - * Counts objects for each type. + * Counts all objects grouped by type. * * It returns a hash, such as: * { @@ -3068,11 +3068,17 @@ set_zero(st_data_t key, st_data_t val, st_data_t arg) * } * * The contents of the returned hash are implementation specific. - * It may be changed in future. + * It may be changed in future. The +:TOTAL+ key contains the count + * of all currently allocated and previously freed objects. * * If the optional argument +result_hash+ is given, * it is overwritten and returned. This is intended to avoid probe effect. * + * h = {} + * ObjectSpace.count_objects(h) + * puts h + * # => { :TOTAL=>10000, :T_CLASS=>158280, :T_MODULE=>20672, :T_STRING=>527249 } + * * This method is only expected to work on C Ruby. * */ |