On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:59:20 GMT, Florian Kirmaier <fkirma...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> When an exception is logged in JavaFX, then the exception is kept in a > reference. > This way, always the last logged exception is retained. > > This is a memory-leak. > This was done to write unit-tests to ensure certain error-cases are logged. > > A simple fix is, to add a flag, to enable/disable retaining the exception. Storing the class is, in my opinion also wrong. Especially OSGI and other multi-classloader environments suffer from this issue. IMO it's okay to test things this way - but I guess that doesn't matter because I only want to fix this big. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1053
