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Android VM and Influence on memory in Native side

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I wishito know if android's Garbage Collection mechanism affects memory held in the native side ( especially the memory held by android.graphics.Canvas objects ).
Occassionally, I see crashes in libskia.so immediately following a GC operation on the same process that crashed. I 'm unaware of the VM's GC operation but am interested to know how native memory is affected by GC.

posted Oct 16, 2013 by Naveena Garg

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