On 11/24/2014 08:56 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote: > Hi folks, > > Review carefully - I am trying to learn about fences by explaining them! > I have borrowed some wording from my reviewers!
+ * Currently hotspot's implementation of a Java language-level volatile + * store has the same effect as a storeFence followed by a relaxed store, + * although that may be a little stronger than needed. While this may be true today, I'm hopefully about to commit an AArch64 OpenJDK port that uses the ARMv8 stlr instruction. I don't think that what you've written here is terribly misleading, but bear in mind that it may be there for some time. Andrew.
