bug in finalizer?

[Alexandre Oliva]

Parmelan, Edouard <EP510777 at exchange.FRANCE.NCR.com> writes:

> Hi Alexandre,
>> The attached program will stop running the finalizer after collecting
>> some objects, for some reason I couldn't find out :-(

>> This is on Kaffe 1.0.b2, tested on Solaris/Sparc and Linux/x86.

> Work for me on NCR MP-RAS/x86 (jit)
> kaffe FinalizeBug >log 2>err &

Actually, it seems to work if you redirect stdout to a file.  If it
writes to a tty, it will *wait for input* before the finalizer
proceeds every now and then.  Incredible!!!

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