Not thread-safe Object publishing

Question

Reading \"Java Concurrency In Practice\", there\'s this part in section 3.5:

public Holder holder;
public void initialize() {
     holder = new Holder(42);
}         


        

Answer 1

looking at this from a sane perspective, if you assume that the statement

if(n != n)

is atomic (which I think is reasonable, but i dont know for sure), then the assertion exception could never be thrown.