garbage collection

[monojit choudhury]

hi
i m having a problem with the garbage collection.Its regarding Vectors.....but i wont go into details of it.just let me know...if A references B and B references C ,and after i set A to null,shouldn't the object to which A was referencing be garbage collected?

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi Monojit,
Assuming that there are no more references to the object, it will be eligible for gabage collection. When it gets collected though is up to the JVM and the vendor who developed the GC scheme. All you as a programmer can do is to make sure is that an object is eligible for GC ...
Regards,
Manfred.

[monojit choudhury]

hi,thanks for the reply.
i m using jdk 1.2.2. and according to me theres a bug in the GC.
i'll explain my problem to u in details.I have a Vector which has array objects in it.now if i go on adding more array objects to it,as soon at it crosses the default capacity,i.e 10,it creates a new Vector and does an Array copy with the 10+1 elements in it(i've gone through the souce code of the Vector API).so the reference to the First Vector is set to null,but since the arrays in it r referefcing to some other objects,the vector doesnt get garbage collected and i m getting a memory leak in my program coz of this.