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@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ malloc family of C standard library calls (
.Xr calloc 3 ,
and
.Xr realloc 3 ) .
-In this documentatation, the "heap" refers to the Ruby object heap
+In this documentation, the "heap" refers to the Ruby object heap
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: