remove mention of `GC_ref` and `GC_unref` for strings (#23373)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/doc/backends.md b/doc/backends.md
index 996ffd2f9..9f0c54835 100644
--- a/doc/backends.md
+++ b/doc/backends.md
@@ -373,11 +373,7 @@ The manual mentions that [Nim strings are implicitly convertible to
 cstrings](manual.html#types-cstring-type) which makes interaction usually
 painless. Most C functions accepting a Nim string converted to a
 `cstring` will likely not need to keep this string around and by the time
-they return the string won't be needed anymore. However, for the rare cases
-where a Nim string has to be preserved and made available to the C backend
-as a `cstring`, you will need to manually prevent the string data
-from being freed with [GC_ref](system.html#GC_ref,string) and [GC_unref](
-system.html#GC_unref,string).
+they return the string won't be needed anymore.
 
 A similar thing happens with C code invoking Nim code which returns a
 `cstring`. Consider the following proc: