[kaffe] Bug report: weak references and GC with Kaffe

[Le Sommer Nicolas]

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Hi,

 It seems that the GC abstains from ever reclaiming weakly referenced
 objects (that is, objects that are only 'referenced' by an instance of
 WeakReference, as defined in package java.lang.ref), even when the
 VM is running out of memory.
 
 Is there a bug in the way weak references (and possibly soft and
 phantom references as well) are implemented and/or dealt with by
 the GC in Kaffe?
 
 The attached piece of code creates both strongly referenced and
 unreferenced 'big' objects. A message is displayed whenever an
 unreferenced object is reclaimed (or, more precisely, finalized)
 by the GC.
 A weak reference is maintained to an otherwise not strongly referenced
 object. This object *should* be reclaimed by the GC. Apparently
 this is not the case...

best regards,

Nicolas

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