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0 pointstialaramex3y ago0 comments

Ooh, I did not know this. Do you happen to know where the "no-out-of-thin-air" guarantee is for the 32-bit primitives? Presumably in the Memory model docs somewhere?

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kaba03y ago

I quickly glanced at the spec, but didn’t find it. But I didn’t make it up though, I remember reading it on the jvm mailing list and I found it here described by Brian Goetz himself: https://openjdk.org/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-...

tialaramexOP3y ago

Thanks for that, it makes sense but it's good to know somebody specifically thought about this rather than "Eh, it seems to work".

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0 pointstialaramex3y ago0 comments

Ooh, I did not know this. Do you happen to know where the "no-out-of-thin-air" guarantee is for the 32-bit primitives? Presumably in the Memory model docs somewhere?

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kaba03y ago

tialaramexOP3y ago

Thanks for that, it makes sense but it's good to know somebody specifically thought about this rather than "Eh, it seems to work".

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