RFR: 8268312: Compilation error with nested generic functional interface

[Vicente Romero]

Please review this PR, which is my proposal to fix an existing regression. This code:


import java.util.Optional;

class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Optional.of("").map(outer -> {
            Optional.of("")
                .map(inner -> returnGeneric(outer))
                .ifPresent(String::toString);
            return "";
        });
    }

    private static <RG> RG returnGeneric(RG generic) {
        return generic;
    }
}

is not accepted by javac but if the user passes the `-Xdiags:verbose` option then the code compiles. I tracked down the reason for this puzzling difference and I found that it is due to our diagnostic rewriters which can generate more detailed positions for error messages but in cases like the one above can trick the compiler to generate an error message too early. The code deciding if an error message should be deferred or not, depending on the position, is at `DeferredDiagnosticHandler::report`. We decide to do the rewriting if we are in diagnostics compact mode, this is why the error doesn't occur with the `-Xdiags:verbose` option. This fix will made some diagnostics to appear at a slightly different position, but won't make the compiler reject correct code. Comments?

TIA

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Commit messages:
 - 8268312: Compilation error with nested generic functional interface

Changes: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5586/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.java.net/?repo=jdk&pr=5586&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8268312
  Stats: 19 lines in 7 files changed: 0 ins; 4 del; 15 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5586.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/5586/head:pull/5586

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5586