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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:41:41 -0800
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On 1/17/2012 10:28 AM, Daniel Pitts wrote:

> a was volatile, so it does cause the happens-before relationships with
> the reads/writes of b.


I messed up again, but I'm still right. :)

He's reading "b" first.  He stores b in bStore, and then checks "a".

Thread 2
int bStore = b;      <--- DON'T MISS THIS BIT
if (!a) {
   System.out.println("The value of b is " + bStore);
}