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013    package org.jikesrvm.mm.mminterface;
014    
015    /**
016     * RVMThread must extend this class to associate appropriate context with processor.
017     */
018    public abstract class ThreadContext extends Selected.Mutator {
019      /**
020       * The collector context to be used by the given thread.  Only collector
021       * threads have collector contexts.
022       * <p>
023       * NOTE: if we have N processors and we're running with a concurrent
024       * collector, we will have 2*N collector contexts - N for the
025       * stop-the-world collector threads, and N for the concurrent collector
026       * threads.
027       */
028      public Selected.Collector collectorContext;
029    }
030