Java Memory Model mailing list archive: RE: JavaMemoryModel: Mi (original) (raw)

RE: JavaMemoryModel: Minor issue on hb edges and interrupts

From: Bill Pugh (pugh@cs.umd.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 08:08:21 EST

[Reposted msg from Hans]

Perhaps another way to think of it is that the "isInterrupted" flag is
used to communicate between threads. As such, we'd tell a programmer
that
it should be made volatile. Thus it would be counterintuitive if the
library didn't follow the same rules.

Hans

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