On ecj and @Override annotations for interface methods

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 10:02 Wed 17 Sep     , Andrew Haley wrote:
> C. K. Jester-Young wrote:
> 
> > There is, in fact, a way to do this, at least for the version of ecj
> > distributed with Ubuntu 8.04. It just requires supplying the "-1.6"
> > command-line option in javac.in.
> 
> Seems reasonable.
> 
> > Otherwise, I'm happy to make the -1.6 option apply only to NIO2 builds,
> > and have configure test for -1.6 support when --with-project=nio2.
> 
> Why not simply add a configure test for "-1.6" and if it succeeds use
> "-1.6" everywhere?
> 

I was about to suggest the same thing.  However, I don't see the immediate
advantage as we'd still have to patch the @Override instances for non-1.6
ecjs.  Override is a source-level annotation so it doesn't survive to bytecode
anyway.

> Andrew.

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