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Garbage Collection
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Arka Sharma
Ranch Hand
Joined: Jun 15, 2011
Posts: 102
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Hi,
I have a class like this
class A{
B b;
C c;
}
now say in a method I have done
void method()
{
A a = new A();
a.b = new B();
a.c = new C();
a = null;
}
at the point i set reference of class A to null the the object of class A will be removed from heap by GC.Also object for class B and C will be removed right ?
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Thanks,
Arka
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Wouter Oet
Saloon Keeper
Joined: Oct 25, 2008
Posts: 2700
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Yes since you have no way of accessing them.
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"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand." --- Martin Fowler
Please correct my English.
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fred rosenberger
lowercase baba
Bartender
Joined: Oct 02, 2003
Posts: 9956
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TECHNICALLY, the answer to your question is "No".
At the moment you set A to null, all the objects become ELIGIBLE for GC, but there is no guarantee that they ever will be cleaned up before your program ends.
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