RFR 9: 8138696 : java.lang.ref.Cleaner - an easy to use alternative to finalization

[Roger Riggs]

fyi,  I filed a separate bug[1] to add the reachabilityFence calls when 
they reach jdk-dev.

Roger

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145459

On 12/17/2015 7:53 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>> On 17 Dec 2015, at 13:07, Peter Levart <peter.levart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I see no other issues left besides the reachability races that I talked about in previous messages. Do you know if Reference.reachabilityFence is being pushed before this API?
>>
> It’s already pushed to hs-comp. I dunno when it will wind it’s way down into jdk9/dev (nor vice versa if java.lang.ref.Cleaner is pushed to dev).
>
> Paul.