RFR: JDK-8273244: Improve diagnostic output related to ErroneousTree [v6]

Mon Oct 4 17:07:14 UTC 2021

On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 12:49:58 GMT, Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When is it possible here to get a DocTree node, which is not also a DCTree?

In standard `javac`/`javadoc`, essentially never.

> Here, we are not so lucky and have to traverse the complete tree

It's a shame we can't traverse the tree right to left ;-)  But, this is only used for diagnostic positions, so is arguably less performance-sensitive.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5510