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java.math.BigDecimal toString is not thread safe #14

Open manuzhang opened 7 years ago

manuzhang commented 7 years ago

Article

http://vmlens.com/articles/java-math-BigDecimal-toString-is-not-threadsafe/

Notes

the toString method involves read/write a non-volatile field stringCache and it's assigned a string which may not have been completely initialized.
the experimental OpenJDK harness Java Concurrency Stress tests is used to reproduce the error.
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