RFR: JDK-8042981: Strip type annotations in Types' utility methods [v12]

[Joe Darcy]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 21:59:46 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 incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Make make of stripAnnotations more explicit.

CSR https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8323620 updated with latest specification.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/8984#issuecomment-1902277340