Re: [PATCH]: natThread.cc: Destroy join sync objects in finalizer

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:

> Tom Tromey wrote:
>
> > Mohan> The GC finalizer finalize_native in natThread.cc should destroy
> > Mohan> the join synchronization objects if the target platform supports
> > Mohan> these destruction operations (which isn't the case for Linux and
> > Mohan> -DLINUX_THREADS but is the case for Win32).
> >
> > This isn't a problem with your patch, but what happens if a user
> > writes a subclass of Thread that has a finalize method which
> > resurrects the Thread?  Won't we start referring to freed data in this
> > code?
> >  
> Does the GC run finalizers in the order that they are registered? If 
> so then we should be ok.

Hmm. Or maybe not, if it runs them both at once.

Bryce