> By the way, we should also guarantee class initialization safety:
> that lack of synchronization doesn't allow you to see the results of
> an incompletely executed class initializer.
My naive understanding is that that's guaranteed by the rules in 12.4.2
of the JLS, which requires a class initializer to synchronize on the
class object.
The worry, I guess, is of a second processor seeing a class as ``fully
initialized,'' but not seeing all the static fields as fully initialized.
But, on the other hand, to properly the detect the class as initialized,
that processor is probably required to insert a memory barrier.
--p
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