VarHandles on non-int-sized fields and atomic operations

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Tue May 24 00:55:46 UTC 2016


Another way to look at it:  We have an existing field

boolean closed;

which should be updated using CAS for correctness, but currently is not.
I should not have to change the type of the field to int just so that
I can get something that is CASable.



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