Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field

[Andrew Haley]

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > >  > 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."
 > 
 > No, but I guess it depends on what he means by "unsophisticated".  You
 > might say casual programmers (competent, but not expert) should be
 > able to use threads.  (I still hesitate to make that claim, knowing
 > fully how dangerous threads can be.)

Right.

 > His real objection is that several leading industry experts (including
 > people at Sun) didn't really understand Java's memory model either.  I
 > agree that's a problem.

It sure is!  But citing ease of use by unsophisticated programmers is
bad, whatever the true aim.

Andrew.