master 70c8ed5: garbage-collect doc string clarification

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

branch: master
commit 70c8ed55fdda7631e5e930bba81395ba9d8d1751
Author: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Commit: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>

    garbage-collect doc string clarification
    
    * src/alloc.c (Fgarbage_collect): Mention that calling this
    function is not guaranteed to collect all the garbage (bug#34404).
---
 src/alloc.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/alloc.c b/src/alloc.c
index 504ef17..34f822e 100644
--- a/src/alloc.c
+++ b/src/alloc.c
@@ -6154,10 +6154,17 @@ where each entry has the form (NAME SIZE USED FREE), 
where:
 - FREE is the number of those objects that are not live but that Emacs
   keeps around for future allocations (maybe because it does not know how
   to return them to the OS).
+
 However, if there was overflow in pure space, and Emacs was dumped
 using the 'unexec' method, `garbage-collect' returns nil, because
 real GC can't be done.
-See Info node `(elisp)Garbage Collection'.  */)
+
+Note that calling this function does not guarantee that absolutely all
+unreachable objects will be garbage-collected.  Emacs uses a
+mark-and-sweep garbage collector, but is conservative when it comes to
+collecting objects in some circumstances.
+
+For further details, see Info node `(elisp)Garbage Collection'.  */)
   (void)
 {
   if (garbage_collection_inhibited)