I'm writing an applet with multiple threads. I've had some strange problems an I've tracked them down to the class below. It's the entire code, no snips.
public class BoundingBox {
private volatile int top;
private volatile int left;
private volatile int bottom;
private volatile int right;
public static final int IGNORE = 0;
public static final int TOP = -2;
public static final int LEFT = -1;
public static final int BOTTOM = 2;
public static final int RIGHT = 1;
BoundingBox(int left, int top, int width, int height) {
this.top = top;
this.left = left;
this.right = left + width;
this.bottom = top + height;
}
public synchronized int top() { return top; }
public synchronized int left() { return left; }
public synchronized int bottom() { return bottom; }
public synchronized int right() { return right; }
public synchronized int width() { return right - left; }
public synchronized int height() { return bottom - top; }
public synchronized void translate(Vector2D vector) {
left += vector.getX();
right += vector.getX();
top += vector.getY();
bottom += vector.getY();
}
public synchronized void alignTo(Point2D point, int hAlign, int vAlign) {
if ((hAlign != IGNORE && hAlign != LEFT && hAlign != RIGHT)
|| (vAlign != IGNORE && vAlign != TOP && vAlign != BOTTOM))
throw new IllegalArgumentException();
/// START DEBUG CODE ///
if (right - left != width())
System.out.println("X");
if (bottom - top != height())
System.out.println("Y");
/// END DEBUG CODE ///
int width = width();
int height = height();
if (hAlign != IGNORE) {
left = point.getX();
if (hAlign == RIGHT)
left -= width;
right = left + width;
}
if (vAlign != IGNORE) {
top = point.getY();
if (vAlign == BOTTOM)
top -= height;
bottom = top + height;
}
}
}
X
and Y
do print sometimes. As you can see, width()
is defined as right - left
, but it still happens that these two aren't equal (same with height()
). Those four fields are private and methods are synchronized, so nothing should interrupt alignTo
, right? Still, something does as it seems to me.
What's wrong with this code?