From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 15:30:22 EST
On Dec 11, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> > Well, it will make some difference. I think the soft_instanceof calls
>> > to check for thread classes add up.
>> Wouldn't it be simpler to arrange that Thread.finalize() calls a
>> native method (or is itself a native method) that does whatever we
>> need to finalize a Thread? This would obviate the need for a second
>> kind of test.
> Nope. Relying on Thread.finalize is impossible because Thread is
> not a final class and a subclass finalizer may not call super.finalize.
> We fixed that a while ago. Thread still has a method declaration
> `finalize0' in it that bears witness to this attempt.
What if Thread contained an aggregate object like this:
public class Thread {
private finalizerObject = new Object() {
void finalize() { Thread.this.finalize0(); /* sp? */ } }
}
// ...
}
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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