I'm trying to make an AtomicReference class in C# and I want to keep the field reference protected, but I also need to return the value in the get method: class AtomicReference { private Object _value; public AtomicReference() { _value = new Object(); } public AtomicReference(Object value) { Opt...
In Java there exists an AtomicReference class. Does this mean that setting a reference is NOT an atomic operation in and of itself? e.g., is this not thread-safe (assuming that the value returned cannot be modified)?: public void someMethod() { this.someList = Collections.unmodifiableList(new LinkedList<Object>()); } public List<O...
Hi, The atomic integer, long, boolean etc are used to do any atomic updates to the respective types since there may be a race condition when we execute any manipulation on them, e.g ++. But what are the different cases with references where there may be such race conditions? Best Regards, Keshav ...