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| author | Angus Gratton <angus@redyak.com.au> | 2023-09-05 11:05:47 +1000 |
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| committer | Damien George <damien@micropython.org> | 2023-09-15 12:19:13 +1000 |
| commit | 92f379cce4cd5bc9d07f1ad76cd9674ca02f54e7 (patch) | |
| tree | fc3e011df61a810ec907002da7f2e62878886624 /docs/library | |
| parent | 26160e8ed54410e3d630c03e1c46eb59e02c2594 (diff) | |
docs/library/gc: Clarify mem_alloc and mem_free only for Python heap.
As raised in discussions of the ESP32 memory management changes.
Signed-off-by: Angus Gratton <angus@redyak.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/library')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/library/gc.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/docs/library/gc.rst b/docs/library/gc.rst index c823aed3e..2ba204e22 100644 --- a/docs/library/gc.rst +++ b/docs/library/gc.rst @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Functions .. function:: mem_alloc() - Return the number of bytes of heap RAM that are allocated. + Return the number of bytes of heap RAM that are allocated by Python code. .. admonition:: Difference to CPython :class: attention @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ Functions .. function:: mem_free() - Return the number of bytes of available heap RAM, or -1 if this amount - is not known. + Return the number of bytes of heap RAM that is available for Python + code to allocate, or -1 if this amount is not known. .. admonition:: Difference to CPython :class: attention |