On 10/21/2015 04:44 PM, Aleksey Shipilev wrote: > Of course, this does not tell another (scary) part of the story, what if > the Reference itself is not discovered as strong ref by GC, e.g. when it > isn't published on heap, or scalarized by compiler, etc. > reachabilityFence, as currently implemented, extends the "liveness" > scope of the local variable, but does not convey anything special to the > GC/runtime otherwise.
If the Reference itself is not reachable from a strong root then the Reference is dead so we don't care what happens to it. But if the Reference is put on a reachable ReferenceQueue, then it's fine. Andrew.
