[jdk8u-ri] RFR: 8071507: (ref) Clear phantom reference as soft and weak references do
Iris Clark
iris at openjdk.java.net
Wed Apr 20 21:37:40 UTC 2022
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:01:20 GMT, Poonam Bajaj <poonam at openjdk.org> wrote:
> These changes backport the following fixes to jdk8u-ri:
> - 8071507: (ref) Clear phantom reference as soft and weak references do
> - 8143847: Remove REF_CLEANER reference category
>
> With these changes, phantom references are automatically cleared by the garbage collector as soft and weak references.
jdk/src/share/classes/java/lang/ref/package.html line 49:
> 47: for implementing canonicalizing mappings that do not prevent their keys (or
> 48: values) from being reclaimed, and phantom references are for scheduling
> 49: scheduling post-mortem cleanup actions.
Is the word "scheduling" repeated at both the end of unchanged line 48 and the beginning of new line 49?
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u-ri/pull/4
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