On 29/12/2020 7:15 pm, Florian Weimer wrote:
* David Holmes:
More accurately soft-references will be cleared before throwing an OOME
due to Java heap exhaustion. There are other things that can throw OOME
(like your array example, or "throw new OutOfMemoryError();") that don't
correspond to heap exhaustion and and so soft-reference clearing doesn't
enter the picture.
I think it's still a bug in the spec due to the way it is worded.
Yes:
"All soft references to softly-reachable objects are guaranteed to have
been cleared before the virtual machine throws an OutOfMemoryError."
s/virtual machine/garbage collector/
Cheers,
David
