On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/24/2014 08:56 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote: > + * 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
No - it was very wrong, since it doesn't give you sequential consistency! , 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.
