On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 16:48, Joe Darcy<joe.da...@sun.com> wrote: > Martin Buchholz wrote: >> >> It is believed that the java memory model allows Class.getName() >> to return null. >> This is one of those methods with an intentional data race. >> Probably this has not been seen in practice because only >> a perverse or adversarial runtime would load the "name" field >> twice, out-of-order, as it seems to be allowed to. >> >> diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java >> b/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java >> --- a/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java >> +++ b/src/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java >> @@ -565,8 +565,9 @@ >> * represented by this object. >> */ >> public String getName() { >> + String name = this.name; >> if (name == null) >> - name = getName0(); >> + this.name = name = getName0(); >> return name; >> } >> >> Martin >> > > Hello. > > The change looks fine to me. Do you want a bug filed, etc.?
Yup. I will commit as soon as I get a bug + synopsis.