[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/internals.texi

[Luc Teirlinck]

Index: emacs/lispref/internals.texi
diff -u emacs/lispref/internals.texi:1.49 emacs/lispref/internals.texi:1.50
--- emacs/lispref/internals.texi:1.49   Thu May 11 00:59:35 2006
+++ emacs/lispref/internals.texi        Mon May 29 22:26:25 2006
@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@
 the part that didn't fit.  If that happens, you should increase the
 compilation parameter @code{PURESIZE} in the file
 @file{src/puresize.h} and rebuild Emacs, even though the resulting
-image will work.  Such an overflow normally won't happen unless you
+image will work: garbage collection is disabled in this situation,
+causing a memory leak.  Such an overflow normally won't happen unless you
 try to preload additional libraries or add features to the standard
 ones.  Emacs will display a warning about the overflow when it
 starts.
@@ -348,6 +349,10 @@
 object consists of a header and the storage for the string text
 itself; the latter is only allocated when the string is created.)
 @end table
+
+If there was overflow in pure space (see the previous section),
address@hidden returns @code{nil}, because a real garbage
+collection can not be done in this situation.
 @end deffn
 
 @defopt garbage-collection-messages