RFR: 8016538: volatile double access via Unsafe.cpp is not atomic

[John Rose]

On Jul 10, 2013, at 3:52 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

> We do not need conditional compilation here. We don't use it for jlong and should not use it for jdouble. The whole point of these inline OrderAccess and Atomic methods is that we can express things in a semantically correct form and anything not needed on a given platform simply disappears.

That is well said, and a good principle to remember in general.  — John
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