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% Copyright (C) 1999,2001-2007 The University of Melbourne.
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% File: gc.m.
% Author: fjh.
% Stability: medium.
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% This module defines some procedures for controlling the actions of the
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:- module gc.
:- interface.

:- import_module io.

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    % Force a garbage collection.
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:- pred garbage_collect(io.state::di, io.state::uo) is det.

    % Force a garbage collection.
    % Note that this version is not really impure, but it needs to be
    % declared impure to ensure that the compiler won't try to
    % optimize it away.
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:- impure pred garbage_collect is det.

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