Can javac 11 compile for Java 6 / 7?

[Nicolai Parlog]

 Hi!

Javac 9 supports "one plus three back" for the three flags -release,
-source, and -target, meaning "6" was a valid value for all of them.

Javac 10 did not change that and javac 11 (build 5) doesn't seem to do
that either. Will it stay that way until the release in September, i.e.
will JDK 11 allow compiling code for Java 6?

 so long ... Nicolai



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