Bug 299589 EventManager.EventThread.run holding excess memory
diff --git a/bundles/org.eclipse.osgi/core/framework/org/eclipse/osgi/framework/eventmgr/EventManager.java b/bundles/org.eclipse.osgi/core/framework/org/eclipse/osgi/framework/eventmgr/EventManager.java
index d42cdde..2dc7188 100644
--- a/bundles/org.eclipse.osgi/core/framework/org/eclipse/osgi/framework/eventmgr/EventManager.java
+++ b/bundles/org.eclipse.osgi/core/framework/org/eclipse/osgi/framework/eventmgr/EventManager.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2003, 2009 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2003, 2010 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -335,6 +335,10 @@
return;
}
EventManager.dispatchEvent(item.listeners, item.dispatcher, item.action, item.object);
+ // Bug 299589: since the call to getNextEvent() will eventually block for a long time, we need to make sure that the 'item'
+ // variable is cleared of the previous value before the call to getNextEvent(). See VM SPec 2.5.7 for why the compiler
+ // will not automatically clear this variable for each loop iteration.
+ item = null;
}
} catch (RuntimeException e) {
if (EventManager.DEBUG) {
