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Symbols aren't always unique for equal strings #6706

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scabug opened this issue Nov 24, 2012 · 3 comments
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Symbols aren't always unique for equal strings #6706

scabug opened this issue Nov 24, 2012 · 3 comments
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scabug commented Nov 24, 2012

See the following REPL session:

Welcome to Scala version 2.10.0-RC3 (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.7.0_09).
Type in expressions to have them evaluated.
Type :help for more information.

scala> var name = "foo" + 1
name: String = foo1

scala> var s1 = Symbol(name)
s1: Symbol = 'foo1

scala> s1 = null
s1: Symbol = null

scala> System.gc

scala> val s2 = Symbol("foo1")
s2: Symbol = 'foo1

scala> name = null
name: String = null

scala> System.gc

scala> val s3 = Symbol("foo1")
s3: Symbol = 'foo1

scala> s2 eq s3
res2: Boolean = false

The problem arises if the symbol object for a particular name is garbage collected (so the weak reference stored in Symbol's weak hash map is null), but the string for that name has not been garbage collected (so the key still exists in the weak hash map). If a new symbol object with the same name is added, the weak hash map key will be a different object from the name field of the symbol object. If that string is subsequently garbage collected, the weak hash map entry disappears, so if the symbol is then created for a third time, it will end up being a different object from the second one.

For additional background, see https://groups.google.com/d/topic/scala-user/mp_pSbfRECI/discussion

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scabug commented Nov 24, 2012

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-6706?orig=1
Reporter: @paulbutcher
Affected Versions: 2.9.2, 2.10.0-RC2

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scabug commented Nov 24, 2012

@paulp said:
scala/scala#1662

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scabug commented Nov 26, 2012

@paulp said:
d0de367e72

@scabug scabug closed this as completed Nov 26, 2012
@scabug scabug added this to the 2.10.1 milestone Apr 7, 2017
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