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Garbage Collection and innerclass

Posted by Viru Hugar on 03 Jun 1998, 1:28 PM

Suppose there is object A holding reference to another
object B's innerclass instance, say X. Now assign B to null.
Inner classe instance X does not reference any variables of B.

I thought B should be garbage collected because nobody is
using this.

I tested it and found that SUN's JVM doesn't gc object B.

What's your take on this?

• A, B, X Bill Venners 03 Jun 1998, 1:50 PM (0)