From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Thu Dec 17 1998 - 15:30:19 EST
On Dec 17, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> Do you mean the static classFinalize method that early versions of the
> JLS wanted you to invoke? This thing's gone.
Yep. How about
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/html/12.doc.html#48744
It's still listed in the documentation of JDK 1.2.
> As for threads, all functions can actually deal with destroyed threads
> because that's exactly the state that they're in before they're started.
Good. But how about File*Streams?
>> > Note that classes keep their loader alive, while the loader does
>> > not (per se) keep the classes alive.
>> Shouldn't it maintain a hashtable pointing to all classes, so as to
>> (as a side effect) keep them all alive?
> This is what the class entry pool does.
So the ClassLoader actually keeps its Classes alive, via the class
entry pool? If it does not, I think it should.
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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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