RFR: 8266082: AssertionError in Annotate.fromAnnotations with -Xdoclint [v4]

[Vicente Romero]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 07:30:09 GMT, Joel Borggrén-Franck <jfranck at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Javac crashes in Annotate when a javadoc reference contains an annotated type, since attribType expects type annotations to have been attributed.
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>> This proposed fix checks references at parse time to disallow annotated types instead of crashing later on.
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>> Since the exact type of error is known I opted for a new error message to make it easier for the developer to see what is wrong.
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>> Since this affects javac at least as far back as jdk 11 and we are past RDP1 I targeted this for 18.
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> Joel Borggrén-Franck has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8266082: Test more cases

looks good, thanks

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Marked as reviewed by vromero (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4483