javac warning: no comment

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Yumin,

It looks like you have doclint enabled, and it is warning you that there 
is no documentation comment on the public field you have added.

-- Jon

On 6/12/19 12:11 PM, yumin qi wrote:
> HI,
>
>    I encountered strange compilation warning when building jdk
> changeset:   55349:139f21bad9fd
> tag:         tip
> user:        iignatyev
> date:        Wed Jun 12 11:48:14 2019 -0700
> summary:     8158048: Fix failure message from jtreg gtest wrapper
>
> What I changed is adding one field (I am working on bug 8222373) to
> ClassLoader.java:
>
>   public abstract class ClassLoader {
>
>       private static native void registerNatives();
> +    private static native boolean getShared();
>       static {
>           registerNatives();
> +        isShared = getShared();
>       }
>
>       // The parent class loader for delegation
> @@ -249,7 +251,8 @@
>
>       // a string for exception message printing
>       private final String nameAndId;
> -
> +    // CDS enabled
> +    public final static boolean isShared;
>
> /home/ws/openjdk/13/jdk/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java:255:
> warning: no comment
>      public final static boolean isShared;
>                                  ^
> error: warnings found and -Werror specified
> 1 error
> 1 warning
>
>    Does anybody know what is the problem here? If I code a simple java
> class, and do the same thing for a public final static variable, it is OK.
>
> Thanks
> Yumin