Finding the declaring class of a _Jv_Field

Wed Nov 1 05:57:00 GMT 2000

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.