Hi, Can someone from langtools kindly chime in with how to move this forward?
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-4774077 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rwarburton/buffer-overrides-3/ http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rwarburton/buffer-overrides-langtools-0/langtools.patch On Oct 17, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Paul Sandoz <paul.san...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi, > > [Including compiler-dev, i am not on that list so please CC me if replying to > just that list] > > ... > So Richard has a patch for that too: > > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rwarburton/buffer-overrides-langtools-0/langtools.patch > > This is required because in the bootstrap compilation phase a JDK without the > co-variant overrides can be used. So the current solution is to suppress the > warnings. Reviews from langtools gurus are very much appreciated. > ? > Ideally it would be nice to push all this under one issue, is that possible? > If not i will have to create another issue and of course push to langtools > before jdk. > > A internal CCC is also underway. > This has be approved, with the comment that "@since 1.9" should be added to the doc of the new methods, which i have done in my copy of the patch. Thanks, Paul.
