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FIX: GC Fault Occurs if a Class Is Loaded Multiple Times in a Given Classloader

Article ID: 261132

Article Last Modified on 6/14/2006

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Java Virtual Machine

This article was previously published under Q261132

SYMPTOMS

If you attempt to load a given class through a classloader multiple times and call System.gc(), this could result in a fault.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug has been verified to occur in both the 3100 and 3200 series of the Microsoft virtual machine.

This problem was corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 1.

MORE INFORMATION

Reloading classes within a loader is not valid.

REFERENCES

For additional information about the latest service pack for Windows 2000, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

For support information about Visual J++ and the SDK for Java, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/java

Additional query words: classloader

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbjavavm33xxfix kbwin2000sp1fix KB261132

Microsoft KB Archive/261132

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