What problems might arise when sharing an int between two threads?

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Published on 2010-04-17T17:20:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/17 17:23 UTC
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Two threads accesses a shared int, x. What problems can arise from instruction reordering etc.

Thread 1:

x = 1;

Thread 2:

obj.f(x);

What would change if x is declarared volatile?
What would change if Thread 1 and Thread 2 runs on different cores?

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