RFR: 8065804: JEP 171: Clarifications/corrections for fence intrinsics

[David Holmes]

Martin,

On 25/11/2014 6:56 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Review carefully - I am trying to learn about fences by explaining them!
> I have borrowed some wording from my reviewers!
>
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8065804
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk9/fence-intrinsics/

Please explain why you have changed the defined semantics for 
storeFence. You have completely reversed the direction of the barrier.

Thanks,
David