RE: JavaMemoryModel: Store/load barrier

From: David Holmes (dholmes@dltech.com.au)
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 18:47:15 EDT


> Please excuse me if my quesion is naive. Does new Java
> memory model require a store/load barrier between
> dynamically successive unlock and lock operations on
> different locks? According to JSR-133 Cookbook it does but
> I cannot figure out how this follows from the
> happens-before relationship defined in the memory model.

Although it is not clearly stated in the table in the cookbook, it is
meant to apply only to the same monitor lock.

David Holmes

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