Re: The D Programming Language
David Abrahams wrote:
Of course, this means that other threads can see pointers to
objects which aren't yet constructed. But that's generally true
in Java, even without threads; just call a virtual function from
a base class constructor. Worse, other threads can see pointers
to objects which haven't yet been zero initialized (or
initialized at all). That is, of course, the undefined behavior
that Java supposedly doesn't have. (I'm rather surprised that
Andrei doesn't recognize this. IIRC, he's written on the
problems of double checked locking in the past, and this problem
is related.)
Wow. I'm out of my element here, but it does sound sticky.
It does sound sticky, indeed. As I discussed in my reply to that post,
it also turns out to be incorrect. I'd insert some more sarcastic
remarks to James about not dispensing information that one is not sure
about, unless I wasn't guilty of the same myself... quite a few times :o).
Andrei
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