How does Garbage Collection in Java work?

Question

I was wondering how the garbage collector in Java deals with the following situation.

Object A has a reference to Object B and Object B has a reference to Object C. The

Answer 1

B and C are eligable for garbage collection because you can't access them any more. With the unpredicatbility of the garbage collector all we know is they are quite likely to get collected at some point in the future.