On Jul 3, 4:50 pm, Drifter <daveh...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I've finally figured out the discrepancy. Using the following code, I > ran it through the debugger (in Eclipse, WinXP, emulator) and then ran > it just through the emulator - I get different results. The debugger > shows "TestThread Running" while the non-debugger version shows > "TestThread FinaIizing". I believe the debugger holds a reference to > the TestThread which prevents it from getting garbage collected.
Yes, I should've spotted that earlier. The debugger queries all threads, and references to the Thread objects get passed around. The debugger support in Dalvik is somewhat simple-minded, and takes the approach that anything the debugger might care about cannot be discarded. (This isn't necessary, but it does make life a lot simpler.) So yes, if you have a debugger attached you're not going to see Thread objects get collected. (You also won't see most Exception objects get cleaned up, which is rather more of a problem.) See "Known Issues and Limitations" in dalvik/docs/debugger.html, or http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/dalvik.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/debugger.html;hb=HEAD . I'll add a note about Thread objects. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
