JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8035279: Clean up internal deprecations in BigInteger

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Feb 20, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:

> Not sure the static powerCache field, in the original code, needs to be volatile either:
> 
> 1137     private static volatile BigInteger[][] powerCache;

Is there consensus on whether "volatile" is necessary here?

Thanks,

Brian