Re: Volatile happens before question

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:21:17 -0800
Message-ID:
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On 1/17/2012 8:49 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:

On 1/17/2012 8:33 AM, markspace wrote:

On 1/17/2012 8:18 AM, Knute Johnson wrote:

Does this work in reverse too?

For example,

Thread 1
int b = 0;
volatile boolean a = false;
...
...
a = true;
b = 1;

Thread 2
int bStore = b;
if (!a) {
System.out.println("The value of b is " + bStore);
}

Will this always print either "The value of b is 0" or nothing.


Yes


I'm pretty sure Peter got the correct answer which is "no." I want to
stick my answers in a separate reply, so I'll just add that this is an
easy mistake to make and if both Peter and you hadn't already provided
some insights I probably would have flubbed it up myself.

Reasoning about synchronization can be pretty hard. Make sure you
consider carefully all possibilities when analyzing multi-threaded
programs for bugs.


OK, I'll bite, if a is false how can b be anything but 0?


And if b = 1 could be reordered before a = true then b would be flopping
all over the place because as soon as a = true b would again have to be 0.

--

Knute Johnson

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