More from the JEP 261 backlog

[Stephan Herrmann]

Alex, Joe,

 From both your answers I learned that I was working from assumptions that are 
not shared by Oracle. I apologize.

Just to show where we are coming from, and to mention that all this was done in 
the best of intentions to help the Java community at large, some words of 
explanation:

Back in the time of JEP 261, we - developers of the Eclipse compiler for Java, 
who are not laywers - believed that we were required to implement the --release 
option in order to claim support for Java 9. Within the existing architectural 
context, using information from ct.sym was literally the only possibility we saw.

As of now the underlying problem remains, but we'll have to come back with a 
different set of questions.

regards,
Stephan