7166055: Javadoc for WeakHashMap contains misleading advice
Reviewed-by: dholmes, mduigou
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/util/WeakHashMap.java Fri Jun 01 00:05:21 2012 -0700
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/util/WeakHashMap.java Mon Jun 04 16:30:35 2012 +0800
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@
* from being discarded. Note that a value object may refer indirectly to its
* key via the <tt>WeakHashMap</tt> itself; that is, a value object may
* strongly refer to some other key object whose associated value object, in
- * turn, strongly refers to the key of the first value object. One way
+ * turn, strongly refers to the key of the first value object. If the values
+ * in the map do not rely on the map holding strong references to them, one way
* to deal with this is to wrap values themselves within
* <tt>WeakReferences</tt> before
* inserting, as in: <tt>m.put(key, new WeakReference(value))</tt>,