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Jacks, gij and the GC
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- To: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at gmail dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 13:12:22 +0100
- Subject: Jacks, gij and the GC
- References: <c686ne$96e$1@sea.gmane.org>
Ranjit Mathew writes:
>
> In a well-behaving JVM this should print out
> "false" after some time.
Yes, but the amount of time that it might take is unbounded.
> 1. Doesn't anyone else see this behaviour on Linux?
Yes. Linux can protect aginst this possibility by using "ulimit".
This is a longstanding gcj bug that can be fixed, but with some
difficulty.
Andrew.