and Java’s <code>volatile</code> variables.
</p>

<h3 id="finalizer">Finalizers</h3>

<p>
The <a href="/pkg/runtime/"><code>runtime</code></a> package provides
a <code>SetFinalizer</code> function that adds a finalizer to be called when
a particular object is no longer reachable by the program.

  /**
   * Iterates through the given loaders until it finds one that can load Finalizer.
   *
   * @return Finalizer.class
   */
  private static Class<?> loadFinalizer(FinalizerLoader... loaders) {
    for (FinalizerLoader loader : loaders) {
      Class<?> finalizer = loader.loadFinalizer();
      if (finalizer != null) {
        return finalizer;
      }
    }

    throw new AssertionError();
  }

    assertNotSame(frqC, sepFrqC);
    // Check the assumptions above.

    // FRQ tries to load the Finalizer class (for the reference-collecting thread) in a few ways.
    // If the class is accessible to the system ClassLoader (ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader())
    // then FRQ does not bother to load Finalizer.class through a separate ClassLoader. That happens

    throw formatRuntimeException(
        "Latch failed to count down within %d second timeout", timeoutSeconds);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a garbage object that counts down the latch in its finalizer. Sequestered into a
   * separate method to make it somewhat more likely to be unreachable.
   */
  private static void createUnreachableLatchFinalizer(CountDownLatch latch) {
    Object unused =
        new Object() {

    throw formatRuntimeException(
        "Latch failed to count down within %d second timeout", timeoutSeconds);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a garbage object that counts down the latch in its finalizer. Sequestered into a
   * separate method to make it somewhat more likely to be unreachable.
   */
  private static void createUnreachableLatchFinalizer(CountDownLatch latch) {
    Object unused =
        new Object() {