[Fwd: Re: hg: jdk7/tl/langtools: 7010194: several langtools regression failures after JSR 292 changes (b123)]

[Rémi Forax]

On 01/05/2011 12:53 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> On 05/01/11 11:23, Alan Bateman wrote:
>> Hi maurizio,
>> In my opinion, XlintWarn should also test invokeGeneric().
>> Moreover, it will be better to have one test by invoke*() instead of
>> having one
>> test for all invoke*()
>>
>> Rémi
> Hi Remi
> I agree on your comments; however note that the aim of the XlintWarn 
> test is to check that the compiler issues warnings in relation to 
> old-style usage of 292 target typing - since the old syntax is going 
> away (see related cleanup CR: 6992698). In other words, the aim of 
> this changeset is to make tests pass again (with b123) awaiting for a 
> more precise cleanup (which is needed since InvokeDynamic and other 
> 292 features should be removed from the JDK 7 repo).

Not all syntaxes introduces by JSR 292 should be removed
MethodHandle.invokeExact()/invokeGeneric()
will stay. Otherwise, java.dyn package will not compile anymore.

And in my opinion other features should forward ported into lambda 
workspace,
but that's a different story.

>
> Maurizio

Rémi