Re: JavaMemoryModel: Draft of JavaOne talk

From: Bill Pugh (pugh@cs.umd.edu)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 11:09:11 EDT


At 8:50 AM -0400 5/29/00, Doug Lea wrote:
> One of the reasons for doing this is that as
>of last summer, I didn't know of any JVMs that did not provide
>initialization safety of final fields. But there are now many more of
>them. Does anyone know of any JVM (maybe on alphas?) that does not?
>
>-Doug

The Symantec JIT does not. Changing the fields of the Singleton in
Paul's example to final has ne effect; you still see uninitialized
values.

        Bill
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