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Re: status of gcj's boehm collector?

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
Cc: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>, "'Adam Megacz'" <gcj at lists dot megacz dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 15:27:37 +1300
Subject: Re: status of gcj's boehm collector?
References: <40700B4C02ABD5119F000090278766443BEDEE@hplex1.hpl.hp.com> <15376.36836.803825.695524@cuddles.cambridge.redhat.com>

Andrew Haley wrote:

>What I'm wondering is whether this is a real or a theoretical
>requirement for gcj.  So, for our current implementation, is there any
>chance that calling System.gc() might not call finalizers for files
>that are garmabge before returing? 
>

Yes! The finalizers are run from a separate thread, so its most likely 
that they will not have run when System.gc() returns.

regards

Bryce.

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