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Re: Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field
- To: jeff dot sturm at commerceone dot com
- Subject: Re: Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field
- From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:38:18 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: tromey at cygnus dot com, java-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
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Jeff Sturm writes:
> Tom Tromey wrote:
> > It sucks that this isn't well specified. Maybe the only thing to do
> > is file a bug report with Sun and hope that they respond to it
> > someday.
>
> Bill Pugh has started a related crusade to fix the Java memory model
> specification:
>
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/~pugh/java/memoryModel/jsr.html
Interesting doc. Does anyone believe
"A primary concern is the ability of unsophisticated programmers to
create reliable/correct multithreaded programs."
?
Not that cleaning up the threading spec isn't worthwhile, but this
primary concern doesn't seem sensible, and more than so-called
"natural language programming for non-programmers."
Andrew.