Suggested backports of JDK 7 langtools fixes to OpenJDK 6

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 2 March 2010 04:06, Joe Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> In addition to the JDK 7 fix for
>
>   6511613: javac unexpectedly doesn't fail in some cases if an annotation
> processor specified
>
> which Jon has already backported to OpenJDK 6, in my estimation some other
> recent fixes to langtools in JDK 7 would be fine backports to OpenJDK 6 too:
>
>   6927797: langtools/test/tools/javac/EarlyAssert.java fails when run with
> assertions enabled (-ea)
>   6926703: apt tests should run with assertions enabled
>
> I would gladly let someone else have the honor of doing the backport;
> otherwise, I'll prepare the backports myself as time permits.
>
> -Joe
>

I don't know if it's an honour or not, but I've backported and pushed
both fixes.  All langtools tests passed with the new changesets.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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