<div dir="ltr">Oh, wow. I did vaguely recall mentioning this missing feature. Apparently, it was on a thread you started: <a href="https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/compiler-dev/2023-October/024417.html">https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/compiler-dev/2023-October/024417.html</a><div><br><div>Well, thank you, I guess. I should maybe contribute instead of just complaining, and things might happen earlier :). I'm just not so great with long bureaucratic processes, and generally lost how to start if I believe a feature (even if small) should be implemented in the JDK (or related tools). That is, my general expectation would be that if I just send a PR, then it would be ignored and lost within the many things of the JDK (at least as far as I have seen, actually implementing it is usually secondary to having it discussed with relevant people).</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Archie Cobbs <<a href="mailto:archie.cobbs@gmail.com">archie.cobbs@gmail.com</a>> ezt írta (időpont: 2026. jan. 24., Szo, 15:08):<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Funny you should mention that... :)</div><div><br></div><div>In JDK 26+ you will be able to do this via flags like <span style="font-family:monospace">-Werror:static</span></div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8349847" target="_blank">https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8349847</a> for details.</div><div><br></div><div>-Archie</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 7:08 AM Attila Kelemen <<a href="mailto:attila.kelemen85@gmail.com" target="_blank">attila.kelemen85@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>My $0.02: This is an easy call. The answer is that it's not worth changing because (b) this would cause legacy to to start failing to compile, which is violates Java's stellar reputation for backward compatibility, and (b) there is already a perfectly reasonable workaround, i.e. <span style="font-family:monospace">-Xlint:static -Werror</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not arguing that the original request should be implemented and break existing code (bad as they are). However, this suggestion doesn't really work, because javac doesn't support different sets of values for `Werror` and for mere warnings. That is, I usually want to turn on almost everything for `Xlint` , but I definitely don't want every warning to be an error (most notably, I don't want `@deprecated` to immediately fail compilation, but I want it to be reported as a warning).</div></div></div>
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