RFR JDK-8215470: Bad EnclosingMethod attribute on classes declared in lambdas

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

Looks good - all tests clear despite the removals?

Maurizio

On 17/01/2019 02:15, Vicente Romero wrote:
> Hi Maurizio,
>
> Thanks for your comments. What about [1]?
>
> Vicente
>
> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/8215470/webrev.01/jdk.dev.patch
>
> On 1/16/19 4:05 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> The patch looks good - but I have some questions; sometime ago some 
>> logic was added to LambdaToMethod to handle type variables - see 
>> LambdaSymbolKind.TypeVar and related code.
>>
>> I have the vague feeling that this code was added precisely for this 
>> reason: to fixup issues related to missing type-variable in the 
>> enclosing method. If now you point to the correct method (as per 
>> source code), wouldn't this code be redundant? Doing some analysis on 
>> the code (hg annotate) I was able to get to this bug:
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8005653
>>
>> Looking at the synopsis, I see an inner class with an enclosing 
>> method - and a dandling type variable reference... I think this is 
>> overlapping with the issue you are trying to fix.
>>
>> Also, I think it would be nice to have a test which uses reflection 
>> to poke at the type variables, and checks that the runtime values of 
>> the type-variables in the local class are indeed the same as the ones 
>> in the enclosing method.
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
>> On 16/01/2019 19:55, Vicente Romero wrote:
>>> Please review fix for [1] at [2]. The fix is about pointing the 
>>> enclosing method attribute of inner classes inside a lambda; to the 
>>> original method in which the inner class was declared. Currently 
>>> javac is pointing it to the synthetic method that contains the 
>>> lambda implementation. Please review the CSR too,
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vicente
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215470
>>> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/8215470/webrev.00/
>>> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8217272
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