On ecj and @Override annotations for interface methods

[Andrew John Hughes]

2008/9/18 C. K. Jester-Young <cky944 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:33:27PM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> There is no -source 1.6 option, there were no language changes between
>> 1.5 and 1.6, only target changes. (Although -source 1.5 will trigger
>> -target 1.5, which is why it makes a difference compared to not giving
>> any -source option.)
>
> There is, for the ecj that comes with Ubuntu 8.04 ("Eclipse Java
> Compiler v_774_R33x, 3.3.1"). It makes a difference between whether
> @Override annotations are accepted for interface methods; in fact,
> that's why I started this thread in the first place. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>        ---Chris K.
>

That's what I thought, but if it can't be used with a target of 1.5, then
we need to just strip these things in javac.in as you suggested.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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