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The CERT® Oracle® Secure Coding Standard for Java™
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The CERT® Oracle® Secure Coding Standard for Java™

by Fred Long, Dhruv Mohindra, Robert C. Seacord, Dean F. Sutherland, David Svoboda
September 2011
Intermediate to advanced
744 pages
14h 50m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 9. Visibility and Atomicity (VNA)

Rules

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Risk Assessment Summary

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VNA00-J. Ensure visibility when accessing shared primitive variables

Reading a shared primitive variable in one thread may not yield the value of the most recent write to the variable from another thread. Consequently, the thread may observe a stale value of the shared variable. To ensure the visibility of the most recent update, either the variable must be declared volatile or the reads and writes must be synchronized.

Declaring a shared variable volatile guarantees visibility ...

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