JDK-8027351: (ref) Base's class finalize method not invoked if a private finalize method exists in its subclass

[Mandy Chung]

On 11/5/2013 2:38 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 05/11/2013 02:21, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>
>> Fixed.  Revised webrev at:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/8027351/webrev.03/
>>
> I looked at the latest webrev.
>
> Having runFinalization and runAllFinalizers be a no-open during 
> initialization is reasonable (it should never happen).
>
> I agree with Peter's suggestion to move the 
> SharedSecrets.getJavaLangAccess() into the run methods.
>

Yes agree - thanks Peter.

> As regards the booted flag then there are a few places where 
> VM.isBooted is used so it be better to leave it as volatile (it's only 
> used in a few places to having it synchronized is unlikely to make an 
> observable difference).
>

Reverted back to volatile.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/8027351/webrev.04/

Mandy