RFR(s): 8023541 Race condition in rmid initialization

[Paul Sandoz]

On Jan 30, 2014, at 11:02 PM, Stuart Marks <stuart.marks at 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.