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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 1994 by Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1996 by Silicon Graphics. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1998 by Fergus Henderson. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2009 by Hewlett-Packard Development Company.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY EXPRESSED
+ * OR IMPLIED. ANY USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
+ *
+ * Permission is hereby granted to use or copy this program
+ * for any purpose, provided the above notices are retained on all copies.
+ * Permission to modify the code and to distribute modified code is granted,
+ * provided the above notices are retained, and a notice that the code was
+ * modified is included with the above copyright notice.
+ */
+
+#ifndef GC_H
+# include "gc.h"
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+ extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * Invoke all remaining finalizers that haven't yet been run. (Since the
+ * notifier is not called, this should be called from a separate thread.)
+ * This function is needed for strict compliance with the Java standard,
+ * which can make the runtime guarantee that all finalizers are run.
+ * This is problematic for several reasons:
+ * 1) It means that finalizers, and all methods called by them,
+ * must be prepared to deal with objects that have been finalized in
+ * spite of the fact that they are still referenced by statically
+ * allocated pointer variables.
+ * 1) It may mean that we get stuck in an infinite loop running
+ * finalizers which create new finalizable objects, though that's
+ * probably unlikely.
+ * Thus this is not recommended for general use.
+ */
+GC_API void GC_CALL GC_finalize_all(void);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+ } /* end of extern "C" */
+#endif