A. Sundararajan wrote:
I agree. Static fields of classes loaded by non-bootstrap loaders
should not be part of root set.
PS. I am not sure if this is a bug with hat or with heap dumpers (the
hotspot built-in dumper and SA's dumper). I don't remember how "roots"
is filled. May be, these static fields should not be flagged as roots?
-Sundar
At least for the built-in heap dumper, static fields aren't generated as
roots (instead it's system classes and temporary placeholders in the
dictionary that are generated to the dump as "sticky classes", to use a
HPROF term). So I suspect this is more likely to be a jhat issue.
-Alan.
