At his JavaOne talk, Peter Hagger claimed that most Java VM's still
do not implement volatile correctly. I am rather dubious; I
believe/hope most are compliant. As far as I know, Hotspot is
compliant (both server and client versions).
Can anyone provide current information on other platforms/VMs? The
tests are available from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel
AtomicLong.java - Tests for atomic read/writes of volatile Longs
CoherenceVolatile.java - Tests for illegal compiler optimizations
involving volatiles
ReadAfterWrite.java - Tests for sequential consistency of volatiles
I would like to have accurate information to disseminate at our
JavaOne talk Thursday afternoon, so I would really appreciate it if
people could check these tests against various VM's (or if VM
implementors could tell us whether or not they have handled them).
Thanks,
Bill Pugh
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