[jmm-dev] Actual IRIW use case?

[Martin Buchholz]

I suspect it's as simple as: the "application" is an IRIW test in jcstress.

VolatileIRIWTest.java:37:@Description("Tests the IRIW sequential consistency.")

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:18 PM Hans Boehm <boehm at acm.org> wrote:
>
> I just noticed https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/387 seems to claim that
> hotspot internally needs to specifically enforce IRIW ordering in places. I
> haven't had time to explore in detail ...
>
> Hans