JSR-308 and @SuppressWarnings

[Martin Buchholz]

For years, those of us maintaining low-level libraries have been writing
code like this:

                        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") E itemE = (E) item;
                        return itemE;

hoping that JSR-308 might someday allow us to write something like:

                       return (@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") E) item;

which is clearer, more compact, and generates slightly better bytecode.
This article:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/ma14-architect-annotations-2177655.html
suggests that @SuppressWarnings should work "out of the box", but I don't
see that with jdk8 javac.

Are my hopes dashed?
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