[PATCH] remove redundant initialization of volatile fields with default values

[Sean Mullan]

On 8/13/20 7:04 AM, Сергей Цыпанов wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> previously I've sent an email regarding removal of redundant assignments if default values to volatile fields, see
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/security-dev/2020-June/022137.html
> 
> There was a concern whether it's completely safe to remove those assignments from JMM point of view, see
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2020-June/067341.html
> 
> Recently I've found a thread in concurrency-interest mailing list where Aleksey Shiplive tried to find a constraint
> agians such removal: http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2015-December/014767.html
> 
> It appears that there are no constraitns and Doug Lea mentions in
> http://cs.oswego.edu/pipermail/concurrency-interest/2015-December/014770.html
> that "there is never any reason to explicitly initialize fields to 0/0.0/false/null"
> 
> Also there we similar code changes in java.base before:
> 
> - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6736490
> - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8035284
> - https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8145680
> 
> So I think now we can accept the patch as the changes appear to be safe.

Ok, it seems like a good change. Are you able to file a JBS issue for 
this? After that you can request a formal code review.

Thanks,
Sean