>It's interesting that your example is one that would violate the JLS, at least
>if done consistently, since the cached memory values might not be
>valid for the
>type of the variable. Still, most of the problems I can see with this type of
>system would be corrected by resetting the cache on every processor any time a
>GC operation is done, and this would be required for any compliant
>JVM on such a
>system in any case.
Doing this would make sure that you never saw a field containing
garbage. By allocating objects out of pre-zeroed memory, you would
see either the default value (which corresponds to zeroed memory), or
something written by the constructor.
However, this doesn't help us with the object header. Seeing zeroed
memory for the header of an object would be very bad.
Bill Pugh
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