Garbage collection

[swarna dasa]

question from examulator

Which of the following statements are true?

1 The automatic garbage collection of the JVM prevents programs from ever running out of memory
2A program can suggest that garbage collection be performed but not force it
3 Garbage collection is platform independent
4 An object becomes eligible for garbage collection when all references denoting it are set to null.

Answer 2,4

Didn't understand why option 4 is right?
What about isolated circular objects, one refers to the other but all of them can be garbage collected.

[marc weber]

Option 4 is describing one way in which an object can become eligible for garbage collection. It is not the only way.

[Chandra Bhatt]

4- An object becomes eligible for garbage collection when all references denoting it are set to null.

If you write option four as:

4 An object can only become eligible for garbage collection when all references denoting it are set to null.

Then it would be false.



Regards,
cmbhatt