Integrated: 8027682: javac wrongly accepts semicolons in package and import decls

Archie L. Cobbs duke at openjdk.org
Thu Mar 23 16:08:48 UTC 2023


On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 20:32:27 GMT, Archie L. Cobbs <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> JLS [§7.3](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se19/html/jls-7.html#jls-7.3) specifies that while a lone semicolon is a valid _TopLevelClassOrInterfaceDeclaration_, it is not a valid _ImportDeclaration_. Therefore, if we see a lone semicolon while looking for the next import statement we have to advance and accept a class declaration, and we can therefore no longer accept any further `import` statements.
> 
> However, the compiler was allowing this, for example:
> 
> package p; import X; ;;; import Y; class Foo {}
> 
> The bug is that the parser was switching out of "look for imports" mode after parsing a valid class declaration, but it was not switching out of "look for imports" mode after parsing a lone semicolon.
> 
> The fix to `JavacParser.java` is easy, however it also requires these adjustments to unit tests:
> 
> * Test `tree/T6963934.java` must go away, because it is verifying a bug that only happens when the above bogus input is successfully parsed, and this can no longer happen.
> * A bug in `lib/types/TypeHarness.java` was uncovered and fixed; it was inserting an extra semicolon.
> * The following bugs, which check invalid syntax within import statements, now generate different parse errors and therefor needed their "golden output" updated:
>   * annotations/typeAnnotations/failures/AnnotatedImport.java
>   * annotations/typeAnnotations/failures/AnnotatedPackage1.java
>   * annotations/typeAnnotations/failures/AnnotatedPackage2.java

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 4b8f7db6
Author:    Archie L. Cobbs <archie.cobbs at gmail.com>
Committer: Vicente Romero <vromero at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/4b8f7db6be80e425bebfaf6f68d49da74f29386a
Stats:     188 lines in 18 files changed: 110 ins; 63 del; 15 mod

8027682: javac wrongly accepts semicolons in package and import decls

Reviewed-by: vromero

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12448


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