JEP 193: Enhanced Volatiles

[Jeroen Frijters]

David Holmes wrote:
> But if the JVM acts upon annotations to change how it executes those
> bytecodes then, as Peter said, the JVM is implementing the language
> semantics.

The JVM synthesizes a native method, this has *nothing* to do with language semantics. From the language point of view, native method implementations magically appear. This is just another instance of that.

Regards,
Jeroen