Pending Character-related work - Character-warnings

Joe Darcy joe.darcy at oracle.com
Fri Jul 2 00:59:09 UTC 2010


Martin Buchholz wrote:
> I just tried to reproduce the failure ... and could not,
> so it may have been either my fuzzy memory,
> or perhaps some issue with the import JDK
> not being sufficiently up to date.
>
> Sorry for wasting bandwidth...
>
> Standard response to
>
> Q: Shouldn't we start using the diamond operator?
> A: Yes.  Write a very clever script and convert the jdk sources.
> Make sure the JDK can still be built from scratch using only jdk6.
>
> Martin
>
>   

Yep; "We have the technology."  Full builds bootstrapping with JDK 6 
will be part of the testing required before such a change can occur.

-Joe



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