On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:44:05 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev wrote:
>> @shipilev not sure what you mean by "a flag on the Java side". The Java
>> code just queries the VM for the finalization enabled/disabled state and
>> uses that to control things.
>
> Yeah, "flag" is `Holder.ENABLED` here. I mean,
> Pretty much what it says. The new option controls a static member in
> InstanceKlass that's consulted to determine whether the finalization
> machinery is activated for instances when a class is loaded. A new native
> method is added so that this state can be queried from Java. This is used
