Re: class gc

From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Thu Dec 17 1998 - 16:25:41 EST

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On Dec 17, 1998, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:

>> A class or interface may be unloaded if and only if its class loader
>> is unreachable (the definition of unreachable is given in JLS
>> 12.6.1). Classes loaded by the bootstrap loader may not be unloaded.

> Do you cite this because you are making an argument that classloaders
> need to keep their classes alive somehow?

Yep

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