RFR: JDK-8042981: Strip type annotations in Types' utility methods [v2]

[Joe Darcy]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2022 22:52:43 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Early review for JDK-8042981: "Strip type annotations in Types' utility methods". I work more often in the Element world rather than the Type word of the annotation processing APIs.
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>> The type annotations on primitive types are *not* cleared by the existing annotation clearing mechanisms. I suspect Type.Visitor is missing a case for primitive types. Someone with familiarity with javac's type modeling should take a look; thanks.
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> Joe Darcy has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Update visitor; all langtools regression tests pass.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8042981
>  - JDK-8042981: Strip type annotations in Types' utility methods

Keep alive again.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/8984