[concurrency-interest] static initializers and threads

[Joshua Bloch]

Venkatesh,

Great.  Enjoy the book:)

    Josh


On 5/28/06, Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath <vranganath at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:25 -0700, Hanson Char wrote:
> > > For the sake of people who don't know the "Puzzlers", can you please
> > > divulge the answer? :-)
> >
> > For the sake of not killing the fun, please don't.
> >
> > (Venkatesh, have you tried running the code to see ?)
>
> Since it was a puzzler, I did not execute the code.
>
> Josh, thanks for posting the solution.
>
> "Puzzlers" is now on my to-read list.
>
> - VPR
>
> > H
> >
> > On 5/26/06, Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath <vranganath at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 21:47 -0700, Joshua Bloch wrote:
> > > > Now the quiz.  What does this program print, and why?
> > > >
> > > > public class Lazy {
> > > >     private static boolean initialized = false;
> > > >     static {
> > > >         Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
> > > >             public void run() {
> > > >                 initialized = true;
> > > >             }
> > > >         });
> > > >         t.start();
> > > >         try {
> > > >             t.join();
> > > >         } catch (InterruptedException e) {
> > > >             throw new AssertionError(e);
> > > >         }
> > > >     }
> > > >     public static void main(String[] args) {
> > > >         System.out.println(initialized);
> > > >     }
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > For the answer, see Puzzle 85 in "Java Puzzlers."
> > >
> > > Due to the lexical ordering of static initializations and the
> > > uninterrupted execution of the new thread and the join() invocation in
> > > the static initializer will imply the program will print "true".  If
> the
> > > latter conditions (any one) do not hold, then the program may print
> > > "true" or "false".
> > >
> > > For the sake of people who don't know the "Puzzlers", can you please
> > > divulge the answer? :-)
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Venkatesh Prasad Ranganath
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