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Hi!

Options are:

1 0
2 1
3 2
4 3
5 4

I answered three, but the correct ans is zero. yy?

plz explain. Wht i understand is when u pass objects, u r passing a reference to the original object. so, when u pass x to the method findOut, this method sets x = null and hence, it becomes eligible for garbage collection. Am i wrong or is there any other way to look at this?



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[ November 10, 2004: Message edited by: Barry Gaunt ]
 
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Like, what was the question? How many threads?
 
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When x is passed to the method findOut(Integer y) the value contained in x is copied to y. The value contained in x is not the object itself but a value which can be used to locate the object.

Since x and y will contain same values they can both locate and access the object. We are only setting y to null but x still contains the value...or in other words a reference to the Integer object and hence it cannot be garbage collected.
[ November 10, 2004: Message edited by: Atul Chandran ]
 
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Hi JayaSiji Gopal,
In this post u haven't mention any questions. It is totally irritating.
 
Don't get me started about those stupid light bulbs.
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