question related to bug: 8024694

Tue Sep 17 05:55:49 PDT 2013

Hi Alex,

I have a doubt related to bug entry [1]. The bug has been created by 
someone in the Eclipse community, I assume. As the bug description 
states there is a mismatch between javac and Eclipse compiler related to 
the generation of a signature for enum constructors. Javac generates it 
always, Eclipse (I was trying with ecj-3.7.1) don't generate it, at 
least I didn't found a case where it gets generated by Eclipse. So there 
is an issue when a class generated with Eclipse is loaded with javac.

Also in the bug entry there is a link to Eclipse's bug db, [2], where 
there are some considerations from Eclipse developers about this being a 
javac bug or no.

Could you please clarify if in this case javac is OK according to the 
spec and this is not a bug?

Thanks,
Vicente

[1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8024694
[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=388314