On Feb 5, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Doug Lea <d...@cs.oswego.edu> wrote: > On 02/04/2015 05:01 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote: > >> So i propose: >> >> - the functions should be side-effect free. >> >> ... >> - concurrent map implementations should, on a best-effort basis, detect >> non-termination situations and fail with ISE. >> > > We did this as part of changes to better detect recursive computIfAbsent in > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062841 > The best-effort is pretty good and catches most usage errors along > these lines. (In principle it cannot catch all possible errors though.) >
Ah, thanks for the reminder, i forgot that was committed to 166: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/main/java/util/concurrent/ConcurrentHashMap.java?r1=1.258&r2=1.259&sortby=date Paul.
