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. Cleaning up the logging mechanism, while a good idea, is best done as a follow-up issue. Let's proceed with the currently proposed approach, or a similar minimally-intrusive solution for this leak. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1053
