Redundant bridge methods in nested classes

[Liam Miller-Cushon]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore <
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 03/08/15 22:21, Liam Miller-Cushon wrote:
>
>> I wrote an ASM pass to post process javac's output and work-around
>> JDK-8132776, so that I have a reference implementation to test changes
>> against. It removes bridge methods where there's an identical inherited
>> bridge (i.e. same name and descriptor, and invokes the same method). Does
>> that sound plausible?
>>
> Yep - modulo accessibility bridge (public members inherited from non
> public classes need to be bridged, otherwise reflection doesn't work), this
> is accurate.


Thanks for confirming. That approach seems to be working (with appropriate
handling for accessibility bridges), although it's a little hard to test
exhaustively.
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