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try/finally and if blocks in finalize

Posted by Martin Heitz on August 01, 2000 at 5:21 AM

Hi,

isn't in approach 2 and 3 super.finalize() called only in those cases, when the log file is assumed to be open?
Shouldn't the code be
protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
try {
if (logFileOpen) {
closeLogFile();
}
} finally {
super.finalize();
}
}