Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field

Wed Nov 1 05:38:00 GMT 2000

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.