Reduce risk of memory corruption due to finalization.
Many classes in graphics/java and elsewhere deallocate native memory in a finalizer on the assumption that instance methods can no longer be called once the finalizer has been called. This is incorrect if the object can be used, possibly indirectly, from another finalizer, possibly one in the application. This is the initial installment of a patch to cause such post-finalization uses to at least see a null pointer rather than causing memory corruption by accessing deallocated native memory. This should make it possible to identify and fix such finalization ordering issues. There are more graphics classes that need this treatment, and probably many more in other subsystems. This solution is < 100% effective if finalizers can be invoked concurrently. We currently promise that they aren't. (In my opinion, the real cause here is a language spec bug. But that ship has sailed.) Bug: 18178237 Change-Id: I844cf1e0fbb190407389c4f8e8f072752cca6198
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