Integrated: 8366121: Hotspot Style Guide should document conventions for lock-free code

[David Holmes]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:26:59 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a topic that we, at Oracle, have discussed numerous times over the years and we have some simple guidelines that never get written down properly and which we/I tend to forget and then can't locate. To remedy that I would like to capture a few very simple style rules that exist for documentation purposes not necessarily correctness.
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> Thanks

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: d594ef3a
Author:    David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/d594ef3a3e013b84a392b6d64a54015adc8173cd
Stats:     21 lines in 2 files changed: 21 ins; 0 del; 0 mod

8366121: Hotspot Style Guide should document conventions for lock-free code

Reviewed-by: stefank, ayang, jsjolen, jwaters, kvn, kbarrett

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26934