weird GC problem

Sat Dec 23 08:05:00 GMT 2000

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Have you tried putting a breakpoint on the finalizer and poking around in
> gdb to try and figure out whats going on?

Not yet. I spent the wee hours struggling with the debugger... how do I
get the address of a static variable? The obvious didn't work. I
couldn't "print java::lang::System::in" or "print java.lang.System.in". 
Gdb complained about "no class or package named `java'" or some such.
I'll report back if I find anything interesting.
> Finalizers seem to be rarely used in Java, which could be why
> this hasn't been noticed before.

Finalizers are a bad idea, IMO. I don't use them anywhere in my code. 
But there are places in libgcj we probably must have finalizers to be
compatible with Java.
Jeff