>
>
>In response to Bill's posting I can say that the Alpha _does_ do the kind
>of "aggressive" reordering that would make this idiom difficult to
>implement.
In that case, this makes access to object headers, including virtual
method tables, unsafe in the presence of data races. I don't believe
this acceptable.
Do you:
* believe it is acceptable to make it unsafe, or
* believe it is not unsafe?
* believe it acceptable to insert memory barriers before each
access to an object header?
Bill Pugh
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