RFR [6853696] (ref) ReferenceQueue.remove(timeout) may return null even if timeout has not expired

[Martin Buchholz]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:37 AM, roger riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

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>   if (System.nanoTime() > end) {
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As I wrote many years ago,

To compare two nanoTime values

 long t0 = System.nanoTime();
 ...
 long t1 = System.nanoTime();

one should use t1 - t0 < 0, not t1 < t0, because of the possibility of
numerical overflow.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#nanoTime()