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its a blurred but good question

Posted by somebody on May 28, 2001 at 8:00 PM

> Now I think the behaviour of Garbage collection is changed as was mentioned in this example by Bruce Eckel, i need to confirm this
> cause No matters how u run this program with command line arguments or without command line arguments the result is same that is all the created objects are finalized and there is never a need to run the System.gc method or System.runFinalization method.
> if there is any updation to the that is required?
> plz help
> Sincerely
> Bilal
> class Chair{
> static boolean gcrun = false;
> static boolean f = false;
> static int finalized =0;
> static int created =0;
> int i;
> Chair(){
> i=++created;
> if(created ==47)
> System.out.println("Created 47");
> }

> public void finalize(){
> if(!gcrun){
> //the first time finalize () is called:
> gcrun= true;
> System.out.println(
> "Beginnning to finalize after" + created+" chairs have been created");
> }
> if(i==47){
> System.out.println("Finalizing Chair #47, "+
> "setting flag to stop chair creation");
> f=true;
> }
> finalized++;
> if(finalized >=created)
> System.out.println("All "+finalized+ " finalized");
> }
> }
> public class Garbage{
> public static void main (String [] args){
> // As long as the flag hasn't been set,
> // make chairs and strings:
> while(!Chair.f){
> new Chair();
> new String("To take up space this step is added");
> }
> System.out.println( "After all chairs have been created: \n"+
> "total created = "+Chair.created+
> " total finalized +" +Chair.finalized);
> /*optional arguments force garbage collection & finalizatiion*/

> try{
> if(args[0].equals("gc") || args[0].equals("all")){
> System.out.println("gc(): ");
> System.gc();
> }
> if(args[0].equals(" finalize") ||
> args[0].equals("all")){
> System.out.println(" runfinalization():");
> System.runFinalization();
> }
> System.out.println("bye!");
> }catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e){
> System.out.println("zastaserey exception tha");}
> }
> }
> // well it seems that this topic of thinking in java is a bit old now changes have came in the way the garbage collection works.'
> // what is the reason that this program always show number of finalized objects even one more// //than the number of objects create

> // third this programs generate and exception that is there is some error in the code