> In order to do this, writing to a volatile variable must some other
> variables to be flushed to main memory, and reading a volatile
> variable must force the reloading/reconciliation of some variables.
OK. I think I get it. When, say, a local is bound to a volatile ref,
the contents accessed via the local need to be at least as fresh as
that read of the volatile. Yes? So...
Given field:
volatile Node p;
And code inside some method:
Node tmp = p; // (*)
// ... possibly lots of unrelated code ...
int i = tmp.x; // the value x is at least as fresh as it was at (*)
Right? In other words, assignments both to and from a volatile
reference (or array) field normally entail some sort of memory
synch operations.
-Doug
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