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-rwxr-xr-xsrc/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala
index f2e5c9b1eb..7cf2f8559b 100755
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/ast/DocComments.scala
@@ -18,8 +18,14 @@ trait DocComments { self: Global =>
val cookedDocComments = mutable.HashMap[Symbol, String]()
- /** The raw doc comment map */
- val docComments = mutable.HashMap[Symbol, DocComment]()
+ /** The raw doc comment map
+ *
+ * In IDE, background compilation runs get interrupted by
+ * reloading new sourcefiles. This is weak to avoid
+ * memleaks due to the doc of their cached symbols
+ * (e.g. in baseTypeSeq) between periodic doc reloads.
+ */
+ val docComments = mutable.WeakHashMap[Symbol, DocComment]()
def clearDocComments() {
cookedDocComments.clear()