Hi all,

There are three tests in Swing which depend on Garbage Collector. That is GC is 
_really_ run as the result of System.gc() call.

These tests are:
    * javax.swing.text.GapContent_InternalTest.testPositionGC(),
    * javax.swing.text.StyleContextTest.testCollectGarbageInCache(), and
    * javax.swing.text.StyleContextTest.testCollectGarbageInCacheFont().

What they check is:
* j.s.t.Position instances are removed from the internal list of GapContent 
when an instance is not used any more. (PhantomReference and WeakReference are 
involved.)
* cached AttributeSets are removed from it (WeakHashMap).
* cached Fonts are removed from the corresponding cache (WeakReference).


These tests always pass when run on the RI. They were used to ensure caching 
works fine. None of VMs in Harmony seem to perform garbage collection when 
System.gc() is called, and mostly these tests fail. However, sometimes they 
pass.


How can we handle these tests? Just remove them?

Thank you in advance,
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Alexey A. Ivanov
Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division

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