JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8048014: Update java.lang.SafeVararags for private methods

[Lance Andersen]

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On Jun 24, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Please review the libraries update portion of allowing @SafeVarargs on private instance methods:
> 
>    JDK-8048014: Update java.lang.SafeVararags for private methods
> 
> The patch is
> 
> diff -r 6c26f18d9bc0 src/share/classes/java/lang/SafeVarargs.java
> --- a/src/share/classes/java/lang/SafeVarargs.java    Mon Jun 23 12:12:30 2014 -0700
> +++ b/src/share/classes/java/lang/SafeVarargs.java    Tue Jun 24 10:03:21 2014 -0700
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> /*
> - * Copyright (c) 2010, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> + * Copyright (c) 2010, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
>  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
>  *
>  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
>  * <li>  the declaration is a fixed arity method or constructor
>  *
>  * <li> the declaration is a variable arity method that is neither
> - * {@code static} nor {@code final}.
> + * {@code static} nor {@code final} nor {@code private}.
>  *
>  * </ul>
>  *
> 
> The bulk of the change to allow @SafeVarargs on private methods, including the tests, are over in the langtools repo with javac updates. The javac changes have been reviewed and approved on compiler-dev:
> 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/compiler-dev/2014-June/008855.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe




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