On Jan 30, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.ma...@oracle.com> wrote: > Maybe. I'd guess that the new JMM will stick to covering well-behaved > programs (e.g. ones that adhere to safe publication). The difficulty with > issues like this one is that once publication has occurred unsafely, we have > to figure out how to drag it back into the safe area. There are probably too > many ways to write unsafe programs for the JMM to cover them in a simple > fashion. >
For your delectation: http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2011/10/17/writing-to-final-fields-via-reflection/ http://www.cliffc.org/blog/2011/10/27/final-fields-part-2/ Paul.
