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Revision: 1.3
Committed: Mon Mar 4 16:09:25 2013 UTC (11 years, 3 months ago) by jsr166
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.2: +3 -3 lines
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# Content
1 /*
2 * Written by Doug Lea with assistance from members of JCP JSR-166
3 * Expert Group and released to the public domain, as explained at
4 * http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
5 */
6
7 package java.util.concurrent.atomic;
8 import sun.misc.Unsafe;
9
10 /**
11 * A {@code boolean} value that may be updated atomically. See the
12 * {@link java.util.concurrent.atomic} package specification for
13 * description of the properties of atomic variables. An
14 * {@code AtomicBoolean} is used in applications such as atomically
15 * updated flags, and cannot be used as a replacement for a
16 * {@link java.lang.Boolean}.
17 *
18 * @since 1.5
19 * @author Doug Lea
20 */
21 public class AtomicBoolean implements java.io.Serializable {
22 private static final long serialVersionUID = 4654671469794556979L;
23 // setup to use Unsafe.compareAndSwapInt for updates
24 private static final Unsafe unsafe = Unsafe.getUnsafe();
25 private static final long valueOffset;
26
27 static {
28 try {
29 valueOffset = unsafe.objectFieldOffset
30 (AtomicBoolean.class.getDeclaredField("value"));
31 } catch (Exception ex) { throw new Error(ex); }
32 }
33
34 private volatile int value;
35
36 /**
37 * Creates a new {@code AtomicBoolean} with the given initial value.
38 *
39 * @param initialValue the initial value
40 */
41 public AtomicBoolean(boolean initialValue) {
42 value = initialValue ? 1 : 0;
43 }
44
45 /**
46 * Creates a new {@code AtomicBoolean} with initial value {@code false}.
47 */
48 public AtomicBoolean() {
49 }
50
51 /**
52 * Returns the current value.
53 *
54 * @return the current value
55 */
56 public final boolean get() {
57 return value != 0;
58 }
59
60 /**
61 * Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
62 * if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
63 *
64 * @param expect the expected value
65 * @param update the new value
66 * @return true if successful. False return indicates that
67 * the actual value was not equal to the expected value.
68 */
69 public final boolean compareAndSet(boolean expect, boolean update) {
70 int e = expect ? 1 : 0;
71 int u = update ? 1 : 0;
72 return unsafe.compareAndSwapInt(this, valueOffset, e, u);
73 }
74
75 /**
76 * Atomically sets the value to the given updated value
77 * if the current value {@code ==} the expected value.
78 *
79 * <p><a href="package-summary.html#weakCompareAndSet">May fail
80 * spuriously and does not provide ordering guarantees</a>, so is
81 * only rarely an appropriate alternative to {@code compareAndSet}.
82 *
83 * @param expect the expected value
84 * @param update the new value
85 * @return true if successful
86 */
87 public boolean weakCompareAndSet(boolean expect, boolean update) {
88 int e = expect ? 1 : 0;
89 int u = update ? 1 : 0;
90 return unsafe.compareAndSwapInt(this, valueOffset, e, u);
91 }
92
93 /**
94 * Unconditionally sets to the given value.
95 *
96 * @param newValue the new value
97 */
98 public final void set(boolean newValue) {
99 value = newValue ? 1 : 0;
100 }
101
102 /**
103 * Eventually sets to the given value.
104 *
105 * @param newValue the new value
106 * @since 1.6
107 */
108 public final void lazySet(boolean newValue) {
109 int v = newValue ? 1 : 0;
110 unsafe.putOrderedInt(this, valueOffset, v);
111 }
112
113 /**
114 * Atomically sets to the given value and returns the previous value.
115 *
116 * @param newValue the new value
117 * @return the previous value
118 */
119 public final boolean getAndSet(boolean newValue) {
120 for (;;) {
121 boolean current = get();
122 if (compareAndSet(current, newValue))
123 return current;
124 }
125 }
126
127 /**
128 * Returns the String representation of the current value.
129 * @return the String representation of the current value
130 */
131 public String toString() {
132 return Boolean.toString(get());
133 }
134
135 }