On Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:20:23 GMT, Alex Menkov <[email protected]> wrote:

> TestClass is a container class which contains a number of value object, main 
> test process and target VM create TestClass object, so the test can compare 
> the object and its representation in the target VM heap dump.
> After JDK-8376135 `new TestClass()` may cause unreachable TestClass instance 
> is still in the heap, so it appears in the heap dump too.
> The simplest solution is to make TestClass non-value class (actual tested 
> value classes are nested classes of TestClass)

I assume we don't have any test library code that will determine liveness of 
objects in the heap dump.

Could we possibly fix this with a forced GC before the heap dump?

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PR Review: 
https://git.openjdk.org/valhalla/pull/2109#pullrequestreview-3823195877

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