Why make a method volatile in java?

Question

Why would a method be made volatile? How does making a method volatile change the method\'s behavior?

Edit: I did a toString() on a Method object r

Answer 1

have you read

http://jeremymanson.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-volatile-means-in-java.html

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just to make the answer complete :

as everybody else is pointing out : you can't make a method volatile.