Code review request: 7085024 internal error; cannot instantiate Foo

[Rémi Forax]

On 10/06/2011 03:25 PM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> On 10/06/2011 05:01 AM, Rémi Forax wrote:
>> On 10/06/2011 12:50 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>>> On 06/10/11 11:01, Rémi Forax wrote:
>>>> On 10/06/2011 11:47 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>>>>> On 29/09/11 01:07, Dmeetry Degrave wrote:
>>>>>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7085024
>>>>>>
>>>>>> fix is identical to jdk8, this is a back port to jdk7u.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmeetry/7085024/webrev.00/
>>>>>> jdk8: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/langtools/rev/b86277584776
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> dmeetry
>>>>> Approved
>>>>>
>>>>> Maurizio
>>>>
>>>> if botFilter is declared static final,
>>>> the patch is Ok for me.
>>> final yes
>>> static no :-)
>>>
>>> it is supposed to be used if you have an instance of Types around 
>>> [and the context instantiation protocol will already ensure there's 
>>> only _one_ instance of Types]
>>>
>>> Maurizio
>>
>> That's true for javac, not for any tools that will use javac classes but
>> not its kind of dependency manager.
>
> See the comment at the head of most javac source files.

I know, I know.

>
>>
>> Anyway, this code will be transformed into a lambda at the start of 
>> JDK9 timeframe :)
>
> Maybe, but don't hold your breath. javac is deliberately conservative 
> in the language features it uses.

It depends on the seasons. At some point in the past, javac was the only 
program
that was using generics.

Rémi