Subj : Re: double-checked locking in C
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Joseph Seigh
Date : Tue Jul 05 2005 11:05 pm

David Hopwood wrote:
> amorox@gmail.com wrote:
> 
>>
>> I know that in Java there were problems with this idiom due to the
>> memory operation reorderings and these have been apparently solved in
>> Java 1.4.
> 
> 
> It has not been "solved"; it was not a goal of the new memory model to
> solve it. Just don't use this idiom in Java.
> 
The lock-free stuff in Java depends on it being solved I would think.


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