Class unloading (Was: Heap fragmentation (Was: Debugging "Leaks" With Boehm-GC))

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 20:19:00 GMT 2006


>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin@egholm-nielsen.dk> writes:

[ class unloading ]
Martin> Since it's in the JLS it may be standard GCJ behaviour?

We don't really implement this yet.  It might work for interpreted
classes, I'm not sure.

We haven't made this work for compiled classes yet.  Ideally we would
unmap shared libraries when all the classes from that .so have been
collected.

Tom



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