RFR: 8166842: String.hashCode() has a non-benign data race

[Alan Bateman]

On 28/09/2016 13:44, Peter Levart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to discussion here:
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> http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2016-September/015414.html 
>
>
> it seems compact strings introduced (at least theoretical) non-benign 
> data race into String.hasCode() method.
>
> Here is a proposed patch:
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> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/8166842_String.hashCode/webrev.01/ 
>
>
> For the bug:
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>     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166842
>
Looks good to me too.

-Alan