Re: JavaMemoryModel: semantics and optimization of final fields

From: Bill Pugh (pugh@cs.umd.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 17 1999 - 13:44:09 EDT


At 10:07 AM -0700 8/17/99, Paul Haahr wrote:
>Bill Pugh wrote
> > Say that memory barriers didn't force a reload of memory barriers,
>
>What does this mean? Is this a typo? Is it supposed to be ``Say that
>memory barriers didn't force a reload of final fields'' which seems to
>make sense in context?
>

Correct. Sorry for the typo.

The intended semantics is that memory barriers do not force a reload
of final fields.

        Bill

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