Question about Garbage Collector

**Yuri0202** · September 12th, 2014, 11:39 AM

Hi guys, first of all I want to apologize for my bad english and I'm not even sure if this is the proprely thread to submit my question.
That's my question:
In this code, which one of the 3 objects i1,i2,i3 IS NOT elegible for the Garbage Collection(And why) when the method g() starts:

class I {
private I ref;
private String name;
public I(String s) {
 name = s;}
public void referTo ( I i) {
ref = i;
}
 
Class J {
private I i1 = new I("o1");
private I i2 = new I ("o2");
private I i3 = new I ("o3");
private void f() {
i1.referTo(i2);
i2.referTo(i1);
i3.referTo(i3);
i3=i1;
i2=i1;
g();
}
private void g() { }
public static void main (String[] args) {
new J().f();
}
}

Options are
A= o1
B= o2
C= o1 and o2
D= o3
E= None of the above
I thank you in advance,
Greats, Yuri.

**GregBrannon** · September 12th, 2014, 02:14 PM

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**Yuri0202** · September 12th, 2014, 02:17 PM

You are right.
This question was on my Java exams, i took A, o1 but I think it may be wrong. I just focussed my attention to this code lines: "i3=i1, i2=1", I haven't studied GC very well, but I seem to remember that if we got two objects , x and y, and we do : x =y, than x loses his referments and he's elegible for the Garbage Collection. So in this case i3=1, i2=1, it seems like i1 is the only object not elegible for GC, and that's why I answered o1. But then I realized, it should have been i1 in the answer(instead of o1?) and still, does the method referTo influences my procediment? Well i guess they do, i don't know why but i think my answer is more likely wrong.

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