With Respect to Memory, What Happens When an Object Is

question 12

Multiple Choice

With respect to memory, what happens when an object is no longer needed?

• A) the garbage collector returns the object's space to the free list
• B) the disk block is marked as unused
• C) the size of the array holding the object is reduced by 1
• D) the data block is marked as deleted and is unavailable to other objects

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