Hi Mark, Sorry for late response. I checked and find the backingMap can be private ( as well as another variable descendingSet). Will check in soon.
2010/1/27 Mark Hindess <mark.hind...@googlemail.com> > > I noticed while doing the merge of trunk to java6 that the backingMap > field of TreeSet was not private in the java6 branch while it is private > in trunk. > > Jimmy, I think you submitted the code that changed this in HARMONY-4124. > Why did you change the backingMap field to not be private (and similarly > why is the descendingSet field not private)? > > I'm probably missing something but I couldn't see a reason for it so I > thought I'd ask before I forgot about it. > > Regards, > Mark. > > > -- Best Regards! Jimmy, Jing Lv China Software Development Lab, IBM