Pending Character-related work - Character-warnings

[Ulf Zibis]

Am 01.07.2010 09:38, schrieb Martin Buchholz:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 23:49, Ulf Zibis<Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>  wrote:
>    
>> Am 30.06.2010 19:50, schrieb Martin Buchholz:
>>      
>>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 01:22, Ulf Zibis<Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de>    wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Am 29.06.2010 02:29, schrieb Martin Buchholz:
>>>>          
>>>>> I tried to do that, but Character.java is one of those classes
>>>>> that needs to be compilable by the bootstrap JDK,
>>>>> so this change ist leider nicht moeglich.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I think, there should be a note about this in the sources of those
>>>> classes.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Such a note is likely to become obsolete soon.
>>>
>>>        
>> How do you mean that? Will the build procedure change soon. Then it would be
>> anyway appropriate to update to new "style".
>>      
> In jdk8, the bootstrap jdk will be at least jdk7.

It would make me wonder if there wont come new language extensions.
I was thinking about a comment (in all bootstrap compiled classes) which 
couldn't become obsolete like:
"Don't use latest language extensions in this class. It's one of those 
which must be compilable by the bootstrap JDK while building this JDK. 
Add @suppressWarnings if appropriate."

Anyway, couldn't we use the latest existing JDK-7 build for bootstrap? 
Then we could update the sources 2 weeks later.
... or use 2 versions for bootstrap and library as said before.

-Ulf