RFR (XXS): 6771058: TEST_BUG: java/lang/ref/Basic.java may fail with -server -Xcomp

[David Holmes]

Hi Martin,

On 19/10/2012 10:58 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/source/browse/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/GcFinalization.java

That code uses runFinalization in places which means it is not 
exercising the primary finalization mechanism. But looking further into 
the whole thing I don't think it really makes much difference 
semantically afterall. All that changes is which thread executes the 
finalizer - the object comes from the same ReferenceQueue regardless.

Which means that runFinalization() will really only help if the main 
finalizer thread is delayed executing another finalizer - which for some 
tests may be caused by compilation of the finalize method.

So Chris/Mandy: I think the original suggested fix is fine here.

Cheers,
David