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diff --git a/man/ruby.1 b/man/ruby.1 index 560a536719..e63521c6d8 100644 --- a/man/ruby.1 +++ b/man/ruby.1 @@ -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 |