On Feb 20, 2014, at 9:09 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > In practice, because there are also final fields in these instances > implementations will most likely perform a storestore barrier after > construction and prior to setting the reference to the created object.
Yes, that is what i was banking on. That is how hotspot behaves, right? But, you are saying other VMs might not do so? Paul. > That would make non-volatile appear to work, but it would not be guaranteed > to do so and the final-field "freeze" action only guarantees that unsafe > publication will see the correct value of the final fields (and for final > references anything reachable via that reference). >
