RFR: JDK-8215407: Javadoc throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -2

[Jan Lahoda]

On 5.3.2019 17:33, Joe Darcy wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> Do you think this issue merits a CSR for the behavioral change?

Good question! It is true that javac may now refuse to load classfiles 
that didn't lead to the exception before, so I guess a CSR may be in 
order. I've started with it here:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220167

Feedback on the CSR is very welcome as well!

Thanks,
     Jan

>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe
>
> On 3/5/2019 7:55 AM, Jan Lahoda wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Seems that some classfiles have a weird EnclosingMethod attribute -
>> for (local/anonymous) class A, the EnclosingMethod attribute states
>> the enclosing class is C, but the name of C is not a prefix of the
>> name of A. This appears to be contradictory to JLS 13.1., so the
>> proposal is to reject such classfiles.
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8215407/webrev.00/
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8215407
>>
>> How does this look?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>     Jan