Improve root set used by hat

[Tomas Hurka]

Hi Sundar,

On 7 Oct 2009, at 08:28, A. Sundararajan wrote:

> I agree. Static fields of classes loaded by non-bootstrap loaders  
> should not be part of root set.
>
> PS. I am not sure  if this is a bug with hat or with heap dumpers  
> (the hotspot built-in dumper and SA's dumper). I don't remember how  
> "roots" is filled. May be, these static fields should not be flagged  
> as roots?
I think this is in hat only, since HeapWalker in Java VIsualVM does it  
correctly.

Bye,
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