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That awkward moment when ya spend a week chasing down bugs only to find the only bug was in the garbage collector.
#JavaProblems
@Nafrondel i have never encountered a problem with the garbage collector. What happened? Are you using the default one?
@Gnubeutel I was getting unexplained, unlogged java.exe crashes from heap corruption. Everywhere.
The only thing that doesn’t log and should touch the heap is the gc.
Turns out, some idiot stuck a JNI call to free memory in a finalize block. Memory that hadn't been allocated.
So there was a timebomb set up early in the code, and it would silently kill everything when the gc ran.
Tl;Dr: Corporal punishment should be reinstated for anyone who uses finalize.
