The garbage collector will take care of freeing it, unless there is
something else holding a reference to it (for example inside of your "do
stuff" part). You don't need to set buff to null at the end, either.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:01 PM, petunio <juanjosegilmen...@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I know this is more a java question, but I have been in many java
> forums, and the theory seems to contradict the real thing...
>
> I have a very simple function that creates memory, do something with
> it, and returns:
>
> static void test(int k)
> {
> byte [] buff = new byte[k];
>
> //do some stuff with buff[]
>
> buff=null;
>
> }
>
> After a few calls to this function, it runs out memory
> In C++ I would use delete at the end, and here in java I've been told
> that GC takes care of it, but it seems that it does not
> Am I doing something wrong? how can I free this temp memory after I
> have used it?
>
> many thanks
> >
>
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