From 6fa1dba515e514ea9a4ac5850b0188fb6cf95fbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anatoly Galiulin <galiulin.anatoly@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:37:20 +0700
Subject: Add ``tearDownForeignThreadGc`` function (#5369)

---
 doc/backends.txt | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/backends.txt b/doc/backends.txt
index 5846cce9b..6446103ed 100644
--- a/doc/backends.txt
+++ b/doc/backends.txt
@@ -461,3 +461,11 @@ can then attach a GC to this thread via
 It is **not** safe to disable the garbage collector and enable it after the
 call from your background thread even if the code you are calling is short
 lived.
+
+Before the thread exits, you should tear down the thread's GC to prevent memory
+leaks by calling
+
+.. code-block:: nim
+
+  system.tearDownForeignThreadGc()
+
-- 
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