RFR: 8350212: Track source end positions of declarations that support @SuppressWarnings [v2]

[Archie Cobbs]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:46:52 GMT, Archie Cobbs <acobbs at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR is a sub-task split off from [JDK-8224228](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8224228), which seeks to add `@SuppressWarnings` support for lexical features.
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>> Lexical features don't know about classes, members or symbols, so their source file positions must be matched to the source file character offset range of the innermost containing `JCModuleDecl`, `JCPackageDecl`, `JCClassDecl`, `JCMethodDecl`, or `JCVariableDecl`. That means we need the end positions of all such declarations to be available.
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>> The parser doesn't normally store lexical end positions unless explicitly requested, and we don't want to mandate it for performance reasons.
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>> Instead, we can just add an `int endPos` field to these five AST nodes. This field can be populated as part of the normal parsing of these node types, which already supports the (optional) tracking of end positions.
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> Archie Cobbs has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Add end position for variables coming from variableDeclaratorId().

Closing this PR; we decided not to do this in #23237.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23669#issuecomment-2691183379