RFR: 8332600: javac uses record components source position during compilation

Vicente Romero vromero at openjdk.org
Thu Jul 11 21:43:16 UTC 2024


javac uses the source position of record components to find and later probably remove a given record component during compilation. This could be necessary if annotation processors are present. This is done in part to provide better error messages for silly record definitions like:

record R(int i, float i) {} // two record components with the same name

but this is brittle and can backfire if the record is read from a class file as the source positions are not stored there. See [JDK-8332297](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8332297) for some context

The idea of this fix is not to use the source position but only the name to find a given record component. This could imply that if the user defines an erroneous record like the one above, then the record could end up with less record components than expected but records like this wouldn't compile anyway

TIA

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Commit messages:
 - 8332600: javac uses record components source position during compilation

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20148/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=20148&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8332600
  Stats: 11 lines in 4 files changed: 2 ins; 5 del; 4 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20148.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/20148/head:pull/20148

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20148


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