Garbage Collection

[Sahil Kapoor]

Given the code. Which line of code marks the earliest point that an object referenced by myInt becomes a candidate for garbage collection?


[code]1. public void doStuff() {
2 Integer arr[] = new Integer[5];
3 for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
4 Integer myInt = new Integer(i);
5 arr[i] = myInt;
6 }
7 System.out.println("end");
8 }

options are :- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

My answer :- after 8.

Please suggest ???

[Emanuele Ghe]

I would say line 6 because no ones refers more myInt nor arr[].

Which is the correct answer ?