RFR: 8015831: Add lint check for calling overridable methods from a constructor [v7]

Archie L. Cobbs duke at openjdk.org
Thu Jan 12 18:40:28 UTC 2023


On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 16:40:33 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I guess what I'm thinking about:

No leak is possible in that example.
* `new Foo()` creates an instance of `Foo` (not a subclass of `Foo`) therefore `m()` is not overridden
* Any subclass of `Foo` that may exist in the outside world cannot use the `Foo()` constructor that leaks because it's private

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11874


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