--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/System.java	Wed Jun 05 15:19:13 2019 +0200
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/System.java	Wed Jun 05 10:21:02 2019 -0400
@@ -1782,14 +1782,17 @@
     }
 
     /**
-     * Runs the garbage collector.
-     *
-     * Calling the {@code gc} method suggests that the Java Virtual
-     * Machine expend effort toward recycling unused objects in order to
-     * make the memory they currently occupy available for quick reuse.
-     * When control returns from the method call, the Java Virtual
-     * Machine has made a best effort to reclaim space from all discarded
-     * objects.
+     * Runs the garbage collector in the Java Virtual Machine.
+     * <p>
+     * Calling the {@code gc} method suggests that the Java Virtual Machine
+     * expend effort toward recycling unused objects in order to
+     * make the memory they currently occupy available for reuse
+     * by the Java Virtual Machine.
+     * When control returns from the method call, the Java Virtual Machine
+     * has made a best effort to reclaim space from all unused objects.
+     * There is no guarantee that this effort will recycle any particular
+     * number of unused objects, reclaim any particular amount of space, or
+     * complete at any particular time, if at all, before the method returns or ever.
      * <p>
      * The call {@code System.gc()} is effectively equivalent to the
      * call: