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SyncNeeded.java

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// import - none

/** Show a method that may fail due to lack of synchronization */
public class SyncNeeded {

	public static final int MAX = 10000;

	protected static int[] data;
	protected static int ix = 0;

	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException { 
		class R implements Runnable {
			public void run() {
				// System.out.println(
				//	"Running " + Thread.currentThread().getName());

				// This statement may do bad things!
				data[ix] = ix++;
			}
		}
		data = new int[MAX];
		System.out.println("Starting " + MAX + " threads...");
		for (int i=0; i<MAX; i++) {
			new Thread(new R()).start();
		}
		System.out.println("Sleeping to let threads finish");
		Thread.sleep(4000);
		for (int i=0; i<MAX; i++) {
			if (i != data[i])
				System.out.println("Discrepancy at " + i + ": " + data[i]);
		}
		System.out.println("Done.");
	}
}