RFR: 8000404 java.lang.annotation.Native
Jonathan Gibbons
jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
Wed Nov 14 05:26:28 UTC 2012
See http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8000404/webrev/
A while back, we added a new annotation
javax.tools.GenerateNativeHeader, to mark classes that contained
constants of interest to native code, such that tools, like javac with
the -h option, could generate know to generate native header files.
Based on our experience in using the new annotation, we have decided to
change to using a different annotation, with the same purpose:
java.lang.annotation.Native, to be used to annotate the constants
themselves.
This review is for step 1 of a 3 step process to replace
javax.tools.GenerateNativeHeader with java.lang.annotation.Native.
This first step is to add the new annotation.
Separately, the goal is to replacing existing uses of
@GenerateNativeHeader with @Native. Then, we will remove
javax.tools.GenerateNativeHeader.
-- Jon
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