How do I make an array volatile? Because as I’ve come to understand, it’s unsafe to make an array volatile?
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How do I make an array volatile? Because as I’ve come to understand, it’s unsafe to make an array volatile?
Declaring an array volatile does not give volatile access to its fields. You’re declaring the reference itself volatile, not its elements.
In other words, you’re declaring a volatile set of elements, not a set of volatile elements.
The solution here is to use
AtomicIntegerArrayin case you want to use integers. Another way (but kinda ugly) is to rewrite the reference to the array every time you edit a field.You do that by:
(as I said… ugly)