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Add public statement to Base.GC #54213

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#51335 for the Base.GC submodule (cc @LilithHafner)

This PR marks the following symbols as public:

gc
enable
enable_finalizers
in_finalizer
@preserve
safepoint
enable_logging
logging_enabled

All of these have a docstring and seem to be useful for external code.

This PR should be backported to 1.11.

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Maybe skip:
help?> Base.GC.enable_finalizers

and possibly GC.in_finalizer and all related to finalizers? I see finalizers are deprecated in Java, and I didn't even know of those... If it makes sense to drop them, then not expand the API? Are they used in some packages? I actually thought the rest e.g. GC.gc was part of the API already, not objecting to it public, though I'm not sure anyone should really be using it...

@LilithHafner LilithHafner added the backport 1.11 Change should be backported to release-1.11 label Apr 23, 2024
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LilithHafner commented Apr 23, 2024

From @gbaraldi on slack

IMO the finalizer ones aren't public
They can be footguns

This notably does not mean that they are deprecated or are about to be removed.

[edit: fixed mention, oops!]

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I don't remember having ever talked about finalisers and GC 😳

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gbaraldi commented Apr 23, 2024

It was me :). But yeah, I'd rather not make any finalizer related things public, those are functions that are used mostly internally and should not be trifled with

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module GC

public gc, enable, enable_finalizers, in_finalizer, @preserve, safepoint, enable_logging, logging_enabled
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public gc, enable, enable_finalizers, in_finalizer, @preserve, safepoint, enable_logging, logging_enabled
public gc, enable, @preserve, safepoint, enable_logging, logging_enabled

This now removes the two finalize related things as asked for

@LilithHafner LilithHafner merged commit e644ebd into JuliaLang:master Apr 24, 2024
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@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ Module with garbage collection utilities.
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module GC

public gc, enable, @preserve, safepoint, enable_logging, logging_enabled
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I think enable_logging and logging_enabled should maybe not have been made public?

I understand public to be part of the API guarantee?

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Yes, public means that the statements made about those functions in their doc-strings or elsewhere in the non-devdocs manual will continue to hold in all future nonbreaking versions.

help?> GC.enable_logging
  GC.enable_logging(on::Bool)

  When turned on, print statistics about each GC to stderr.

help?> GC.logging_enabled
  GC.logging_enabled()

  Return whether GC logging has been enabled via GC.enable_logging.

Notably, the specific statistics printed are not specified in the docstrings.


I'm happy to make a followup PR which clarifies that the statistics might change over time or to simply back out logging altogether if you would prefer.

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- [x] #53665 <!-- use afoldl instead of tail recursion for tuples -->
- [x] #53976 <!-- LinearAlgebra: LazyString in interpolated error
messages -->
- [x] #54005 <!-- make `view(::Memory, ::Colon)` produce a Vector -->
- [x] #54010 <!-- Overload `Base.literal_pow` for `AbstractQ` -->
- [x] #54069 <!-- Allow PrecompileTools to see MI's inferred by foreign
abstract interpreters -->
- [x] #53750 <!-- inference correctness: fields and globals can revert
to undef -->
- [x] #53984 <!-- Profile: fix heap snapshot is valid char check -->
- [x] #54102 <!-- Explicitly compute stride in unaliascopy for SubArray
-->
- [x] #54070 <!-- Fix integer overflow in `skip(s::IOBuffer,
typemax(Int64))` -->
- [x] #54013 <!-- Support case-changes to Annotated{String,Char}s -->
- [x] #53941 <!-- Fix writing of AnnotatedChars to AnnotatedIOBuffer -->
- [x] #54137 <!-- Fix typo in docs for `partialsortperm` -->
- [x] #54129 <!-- use correct size when creating output data from an
IOBuffer -->
- [x] #54153 <!-- Fixup IdSet docstring -->
- [x] #54143 <!-- Fix `make install` from tarballs -->
- [x] #54151 <!-- LinearAlgebra: Correct zero element in
`_generic_matvecmul!` for block adj/trans -->
- [x] #54213 <!-- Add `public` statement to `Base.GC` -->
- [x] #54222 <!-- Utilize correct tbaa when emitting stores of unions.
-->
- [x] #54233 <!-- set MAX_OS_WRITE on unix -->
- [x] #54255 <!-- fix `_checked_mul_dims` in the presence of 0s and
overflow. -->
- [x] #54259 <!-- Fix typo in `readuntil` -->
- [x] #54251 <!-- fix typo in gc_mark_memory8 when chunking a large
array -->
- [x] #54276 <!-- Fix solve for complex `Hermitian` with non-vanishing
imaginary part on diagonal -->
- [x] #54248 <!-- ensure package callbacks are invoked when no valid
precompile file exists for an "auto loaded" stdlib -->
- [x] #54308 <!-- Implement eval-able AnnotatedString 2-arg show -->
- [x] #54302 <!-- Specialised substring equality for annotated strs -->
- [x] #54243 <!-- prevent `package_callbacks` to run multiple time for a
single package -->
- [x] #54350 <!-- add a precompile signature to Artifacts code that is
used by JLLs -->
- [x] #54331 <!-- correctly track freed bytes in
jl_genericmemory_to_string -->
- [x] #53509 <!-- revert moving "creating packages" from Pkg.jl -->
- [x] #54335 <!-- When accessing the data pointer for an array, first
decay it to a Derived Pointer -->
- [x] #54239 <!-- Make sure `fieldcount` constant-folds for `Tuple{...}`
-->
- [x] #54288
- [x] #54067
- [x] #53715 <!-- Add read/write specialisation for IOContext{AnnIO} -->
- [x] #54289 <!-- Rework annotation ordering/optimisations -->
- [x] #53815 <!-- create phantom task for GC threads -->
- [x] #54130 <!-- inference: handle `LimitedAccuracy` in
`handle_global_assignment!` -->
- [x] #54428 <!-- Move ConsoleLogging.jl into Base -->
- [x] #54332 <!-- Revert "add unsetindex support to more copyto methods
(#51760)" -->
- [x] #53826 <!-- Make all command-line options documented in all
related files -->
- [x] #54465 <!-- typeintersect: conservative typevar subtitution during
`finish_unionall` -->
- [x] #54514 <!-- typeintersect: followup cleanup for the nothrow path
of type instantiation -->
- [x] #54499 <!-- make `@doc x` work without REPL loaded -->
- [x] #54210 <!-- attach finalizer in `mmap` to the correct object -->
- [x] #54359 <!-- Pkg REPL: cache `pkg_mode` lookup -->

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packageimages instead of targeting only one -->
- [ ] #54457 <!-- Make `String(::Memory)` copy -->
- [ ] #54323 <!-- inference: fix too conservative effects for recursive
cycles -->
- [ ] #54322 <!-- effects: add new `@consistent_overlay` macro -->
- [ ] #54191 <!-- make `AbstractPipe` public -->
- [ ] #53957 <!-- tweak how filtering is done for what packages should
be precompiled -->
- [ ] #53882 <!-- Warn about cycles in extension precompilation -->
- [ ] #53707 <!-- Make ScopedValue public -->
- [ ] #53452 <!-- RFC: allow Tuple{Union{}}, returning Union{} -->
- [ ] #53402 <!-- Add `jl_getaffinity` and `jl_setaffinity` -->
- [ ] #53286 <!-- Raise an error when using `include_dependency` with
non-existent file or directory -->
- [ ] #52694 <!-- Reinstate similar for AbstractQ for backward
compatibility -->
- [ ] #51479 <!-- prevent code loading from lookin in the versioned
environment when building Julia -->
@KristofferC KristofferC removed the backport 1.11 Change should be backported to release-1.11 label May 28, 2024
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