Patch for hash synchronization

Mon Oct 15 15:19:00 GMT 2001

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> Here is a patch for the trunk that corrects 2 bugs:
Hans> 1) Possible premature reclammation of some objects registered as
Hans> finalizer data, and
Hans> 2) failure to return a NullPointerException when you tried to
Hans> lock null (reported a long time ago, as I recall)
Hans> plus a potentially serious performance problem:
Thanks. I've made a couple minor updates to the patch (formatting
stuff -- but only pieces) and I wrote a full ChangeLog entry. I'm
going to check it in shortly.
Tom