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