RFR: JDK-8249829: javac is issuing an incorrect static access error

[Jan Lahoda]

Looks OK.

Jan

On 24. 07. 20 17:00, Vicente Romero wrote:
> Please review fix for [1] at [2]. This is a follow up of JDK-8247790, 
> the checks added to forbid local static types to access type and local 
> variables defined out of theirs scope was not totally correct and was 
> issuing an error for code like:
> 
> import java.security.*;
> class Test {
>      static Test newInstance(Object provider) {
>          return new Test() {
>              private final PrivilegedExceptionAction<KeyStore> action =new PrivilegedExceptionAction<KeyStore>() {
>                  public KeyStore run()throws Exception {
>                      if (provider ==null) {}  <-------- compiler was issuing an error because of this access
>                      return null;
>                  }
>              };
>          };
>      }
> }
> 
> Thanks,
> Vicente
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8249829
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/8249829/webrev.00/