On ecj and @Override annotations for interface methods

[Joseph D. Darcy]

C. K. Jester-Young wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:39:14PM +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I'm starting to be convinced that that's the proper course of
> action. Between not being able to mix-and-match -source and -target,
> and Mark's message about OpenJDK not accepting -source 1.6, I think
> it's all too much of a mess. :-P
>   

OpenJDK 6 (and Sun's "ClosedJDK" 6 releases) certainly do accept 
"-source 1.6" and "-source 6" options:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/javac.html

(In javac, there is another small behavioral difference with source 1.6 
vs 1.5 too; encoding errors in files are treated as errors instead of 
warnings.)

-Joe