[PATCH FOR REVIEW] OPENJDK6-18: HotSpot 23's Java code won't build with a 1.5 compiler due to @Override on interfaces.

[Omair Majid]

On 09/19/2013 01:06 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>> On 09/19/2013 12:12 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
>>> I discovered during bootstrapping with IcedTea that the build fails due to
>>> the use of
>>> @Override on interface methods (namely an implementation of Iterator).
>>>
>>> This webrev fixes it:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/openjdk6/oj6-18/
>>
>> The build README points out that a 6 JDK is required to build OpenJDK6
>> [1] and @Override for interface methods are supported by a 6 compiler.
> 
> Then the README is wrong.

Oh, what is the boot JDK requirement, then?

Thanks,
Omair
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