Boot JDK requirements for 8 ?

[Martin Buchholz]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:37 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>wrote:

> /java/embedded/users/dh198349/**profiles/builds/b66/se-linux-**
> i586-ea/jdk/classes/java/lang/**Integer.class: major version 52 is newer
> than 51, the highest major version supported by this compiler.
>

Consider (just for jdk development purposes) internally turning this into
an error, so that all such warnings are caught before release.  I think
such a thing is useful enough that you could have a system property or
javac flag to turn this into an error.  openjdk development would not be
the only team making use of that, e.g. to find missing -bootclasspath flags.