Backport of the "missing clinit attribute" javac error to 1.7?

[Dawid Weiss]

Hi Joel!

Sure, here it is:
https://github.com/dweiss/ann-clinit

It's really simple -- the annotation has a field that requires a
static initializer (imports omitted for brevity):

public @interface Ann {
  public static String FOO = new String("Foo");
}

and the class that's using it is simply annotated:

@Ann
public class Main {
}

When you try to compile it (javac 1.7.0_40), the output is:

C:\carrot2\gh.dweiss\ann-clinit>javac *.java
Main.java:2: error: annotation Ann is missing value for the attribute <clinit>
@Ann
^
1 error

Dawid

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Joel Borggren-Franck
<joel.franck at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi Dawid,
>
> Sorry for the delay, can you post a reproducer? It would be interesting
> to see the declaration of Foo and MyAnnotation.
>
> cheers
> /Joel
>
> On 2014-10-07, Dawid Weiss wrote:
>> Hello compiler folks!
>>
>> I've encountered the (known and resolved in 1.8) problem with javac
>> failing on annotations with static final fields requiring complex
>> initialization. The failure manifests itself on the latest 1.7 with
>> (edited):
>>
>> [ERROR] /.../MyClass.java:[186,17] annotation foo.MyAnnotation is
>> missing value for the attribute <clinit>
>>
>> This seems to be:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8013485
>>
>> Are there any chances of backporting this patch to 1.7? ECJ compiles
>> such code without a glitch and so does 1.8 javac, of course.
>>
>> Dawid