[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] JDK 9: RFR: 8033716: Fix raw and unchecked lint warnings in com.sun.imageio

[Phil Race]

On 2/20/2014 12:05 AM, Henry Jen wrote:
> On 02/19/2014 02:59 PM, Henry Jen wrote:
>> On 02/19/2014 01:46 PM, Phil Race wrote:
>>>
>>> W.r.t the following change ...
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>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~henryjen/jdk9/8033716/1/webrev/src/share/classes/com/sun/imageio/plugins/jpeg/DHTMarkerSegment.java.sdiff.html 
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>>>
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>>>
>>> 145     class Htable implements Cloneable {
>>>
>>> ...
>>> <208          protected Object clone() {
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>>>>  208         protected Htable clone()
>>>
>>> ---------
>>>
>>> exactly what warning is this suppressing ?
>>
>> This eliminate "unchecked" cast warning when calling this method to get
>> an instance with correct class type.
>>
>
> That's not exactly correct, it just eliminate the need to cast, not 
> warning.
>
> Would you advice to revert them or keep it?

In that case, I'd suggest to revert them

-phil.