JavaMemoryModel: Another place where the default value isn't acceptable

From: Bill Pugh (pugh@cs.umd.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 09 1999 - 14:07:19 EDT


Say you have

Initially, Foo.a = new int[4]

Thread 1 Thread 2

Foo.a = new int[5]; int l = a.length;

In this case, l could get 4 or 5, but I hope we will all be in agreement that
seeing 0 is forbidden.

        Bill
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