Re: RFR 8009517: Disable fatal compiler warning in the old build

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Hegarty
I agree about warning creeping problems. This is a temporary solution, we should soon be fixing the underlying hashcode/equals problems...but... Your temporary solution, -overrides, is just that. It will enable the old build to complete today, but it could fail at any point in the future, as

Re: RFR 8009517: Disable fatal compiler warning in the old build

2013-03-09 Thread Jonathan Gibbons
On 03/09/2013 12:11 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote: Everyone seems to agree, a solution needs to be found to allow us to keep certain areas warning free. This issue is too important, and too much time was spent, to allow it to regress to the state it was in a few years ago. It is true that

Re: RFR 8009517: Disable fatal compiler warning in the old build

2013-03-09 Thread Chris Hegarty
On 9 Mar 2013, at 19:01, Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com wrote: On 03/09/2013 12:11 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote: Everyone seems to agree, a solution needs to be found to allow us to keep certain areas warning free. This issue is too important, and too much time was spent, to