RFR: JDK-8042981: Strip type annotations in Types' utility methods [v15]

[Jan Lahoda]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 21:35:54 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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>   Update spec and tests for getDeclaredType

Just for completeness, the `getDeclaredType` method has two overloads, so maybe the second overload should get the note that it preserves the annotations as well. No need for re-review.

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Marked as reviewed by jlahoda (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/8984#pullrequestreview-1846236174