On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:44:05 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <sh...@openjdk.org> 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, are Java methods > `registerFinalizer` and `runFinalization` called only by VM? If so, can VM > check the whole thing on VM side, without going to Java and asking back from > there? `registerFinalizer` does not expect to be called and only uses the "flag" as a form of assertion. `runFinalization` is called from Java code. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6442
