libgcj/10596: Reference and String.intern don't work together

[tromey@redhat.com]

>Number:         10596
>Category:       libgcj
>Synopsis:       Reference and String.intern don't work together
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 02 04:16:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tom Tromey
>Release:        unknown-1.0
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>Description:
Right now, when a Reference reaches the finalization
stage, we call _Jv_FinalizeObject.  However, that
won't work when the object has had a "hidden" finalizer
attached -- this occurs for intern()d Strings.

You could observe a bug here, perhaps even a
crash, by creating a Reference that watches an
intern()d String.
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