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is Array indexing operation atomic ?

Posted by mahesh on August 28, 2000 at 6:04 PM

Hi,

I do know that reading and writing operations for primitive data-types (except long and double) are 'atomic' (and hence thread-safe). How about array indexing. Say I have an array of user defined objects:

MyClass mArray = new MyClass[10];
..
..
..

MyClass mObject = mArray[0];

is the above statement atomic ?

Thanks,
Mahesh H.