[m-rev.] for review: fix memory management bug

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Feb-2004, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 10-Feb-2004, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > +** - For MR_GC_ensure_room_for_next(), the memory is allocated on the GC heap,
> > +**   which means that the array elements can point to anything;
> > +**   but the array address _MUST NOT_ be stored in memory allocated with
> > +**   malloc() or MR_malloc().
> 
> This is overstating the restriction a little: the array address can be stored
> in malloc'd memory, as long as it is also stored in memory scanned by the
> collector.

I have added "(unless it is also stored in some place which _is_ scanned
by the collector)" to the comment.

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