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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Dummy
Date: 2000/02/05
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> a �crit dans le message :
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> Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
>
> > Does this mean that that the finalization of local variables is
> > non-deterministic in Java?  Ugh.
>
> Yes.  Finalization happens in Java whenever the garbage collector gets
> around to noticing that it's needed.
>
It's even worse. The finalization routine is allowed to resurect the object
(for example, by assigning it to some live variable), however it is
guaranteed that in that case, finalization will *not* be invoked again, when
the object becomes inaccessible for the second time.

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