Document errorchecking mutexes

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 2007-03-06  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
 
+       * glib/tmpl/threads.sgml: Document G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES. (#412145)
+
        * glib/tmpl/trees-nary.sgml: Fix a typo in the docs for
        g_node_first_child().  (#409395, Vincent Untz)
 

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@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ which <emphasis>are</emphasis> threadsafe and needs no further
 application-level locking to be accessed from multiple threads.
 </para>
 
+<para>
+To help debugging problems in multithreaded applications, GLib supports
+error-checking mutexes that will give you helpful error messages on
+common problems. To use error-checking mutexes, define the symbol 
+#G_ERRORCHECK_MUTEXES when compiling the application.
+</para>
+
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