Re: A few typos -> RE: JavaMemoryModel: Proposed Final Specification

From: Bill Pugh (pugh@cs.umd.edu)
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 16:21:49 EDT


Thanks. Fixed.

It is really amazing and disappointing how many of these dumb
little typos hang around, no matter how many times we read through
the document and correct a bunch of them.

        Bill

On May 27, 2004, at 3:28 PM, Carr, Wayne wrote:

>
> A few more typos.
>
> 1. section 1.2 second paragraph. "Intuitively, either instruction 1 or
> instruction 3 should first in the execution." It's missing a word like
> "occur" after "should"
>
> 2. section 1.7.1 definition of "po" program order. "is a total order
> all
> actions" is missing the word "of" ("of all")
>
> 3. section 1.7.1 definition for "k" doesn't include actions that start
> a
> thread or that detect a thread completes. These are listed as
> "Synchronization Actions" in section 1.5 Definitions. (Also, detecting
> a thread completes isn't listed in 1.5 Inter-thread Actions.)
>
> 4. section 1.8.1 first paragraph "if a processor reorders the
> statements". Early on it says "For the purposes of simplicity, we
> shall
> simply refer to anything that can reorder code as being a compiler."
> and
> usually, unless processors are specifically meant, the draft uses the
> word compiler.
>

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