On Thu, 18 Nov 2021 20:13:23 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I think this could just be `return InstanceKlass::finalization_enabled();`.
>> There is lots of code in this file and elsewhere that assumes C++ `bool`
>> converts to `jboolean` appropriately.
>
> One typical way for VM to pass the arguments to the library is via private
> system properties. System::initPhase1 will save the VM properties in
> `jdk.internal.misc.VM` and filters out the private properties from the system
> properties returned from System::getProperties (see System::createProperties).
>
> You can query the flag via
> `jdk.internal.misc.VM.getProperty("jdk.finalization.disabled")` for example.
>
> I don't see any issue moving the Finalizer class initialization after
> initPhase1 since there is no finalizer during VM startup.
I renamed the function to `is_finalization_enabled` per previous comment, and I
also made these cleanups.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6442
