Repeated lint option parsing and difference in behavior

[Dawid Weiss]

For the record -- Java 8 works as expected, Java 9 and on does not.

Dawid

On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 3:41 PM Dawid Weiss <dawid.weiss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you, Jon.
>
> From what I can see on github this buggy scenario is fairly common...
> I checked with Java 11 on and it's present in all versions up to the
> most recent one. Should it be backported to LTS releases?
>
> Dawid
>
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:43 PM Jonathan Gibbons
> <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > Filed
> >
> > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8236949
> >
> > -- Jon
> >
> > On 01/10/2020 07:45 AM, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> > > Dawid,
> > >
> > > Thanks for reporting this. If this is the case, it is a bug.
> > > I'll investigate and file a bug if necessary.
> > >
> > > -- Jon
> > >
> > > On 1/10/20 7:12 AM, Dawid Weiss wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> I just filed a bug for Lucene [1] but I can't explain why there is a
> > >> difference between calling javadoc with several lint options:
> > >>
> > >> javadoc ... -Xdoclint:all -Xdoclint:-missing -Xdoclint:-accessibility
> > >>
> > >> versus aggregating them in one line:
> > >>
> > >> javadoc ... -Xdoclint:all,-missing,-accessibility
> > >>
> > >> It seems to me that the first version disables everything -- none of
> > >> the lint options are running (no errors are reported) while the second
> > >> version seems to work just fine.
> > >>
> > >> Am I missing something?
> > >>
> > >> Dawid
> > >>
> > >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9126
> >