[7u8] Request for approval: 7161229 PriorityBlockingQueue keeps hard reference to last removed element

[Edvard Wendelin]

Approved.

On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:55 AM, David Holmes wrote:

> This is a direct backport of the changes that went into 8:
> 
> Changeset: 94b525ce3653
> Author:    dholmes
> Date:      2012-06-27 01:36 -0400
> URL:       http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/94b525ce3653
> 
> 7161229: PriorityBlockingQueue keeps hard reference to last removed element
> Reviewed-by: dholmes, forax, alanb
> Contributed-by: Doug Lea <dl at cs.oswego.edu>
> 
> ! src/share/classes/java/util/concurrent/PriorityBlockingQueue.java
> ! test/java/util/concurrent/BlockingQueue/LastElement.java
> 
> Review thread:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-June/010636.html
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> David Holmes