Review request: update javac to properly output mandated parameters in MethodParameters attributes

Jonathan Gibbons jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Thu Feb 7 14:37:16 PST 2013


On 02/07/2013 02:08 PM, Alex Buckley wrote:
>
> This parameter certainly seems to be neither explicitly declared nor 
> implicitly declared, so javac should mark it ACC_SYNTHETIC. A 
> javac-specific document should enumerate the growing list of 
> constructs which are marked like that. 

I agree with the suggestion for javac-specific document.

I woud also like to see an embodiment of that document as a javac test, 
that itemizes the different cases, and clearly and concisely indicates 
the flags expected on all the parameters in all these cases.

-- Jon



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