Review request for OPENJDK6-35: backport of JDK-6650759 to openjdk6

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Andrew, thank you.
> Just pushed the changes.
> BTW, icedtea patches 6650759-missing_inference.patch and
> 6638712-wildcard_types.patch are now redundant.
> 

In future, if you're backporting changes, can you please keep the original
author and summary information?

From:

user:        mcimadamore
6638712: Inference with wildcard types causes selection of inapplicable method
Summary: Added global sanity check in order to make sure that return type inference does not violate bounds constraints
Reviewed-by: jjg

to:

user:        ikrylov
OPENJDK6-34: OpenJDK6-b31 backport of JDK-6638712 to openjdk6
Summary: Original bug synopsis-Inference of formal type parameter (unused in formal parameters) is not performed
Reviewed-by: aph
Contributed-by: nikgor <nikolay at azulsystems.com>

As this is a backport, there's no reason to allocate an OPENJDK6 bug to it.
The original information could have been used, perhaps with the additional reviewer.
Now it looks like Azul wrote this patch, which I don't believe is the case.

> Also, the following bugs may be closed OPENJDK6-32,33,34,35. I would
> close those myself but I do not have the required permissions.

Done.

> 
> Thanks,
> Ivan
> 
> On 23/06/2014 17:09, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > On 06/23/2014 02:05 PM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> >> The main motivation for this fix was exactly to fix building JBoss EAP
> >> certification bundle (for 6.2.0).
> >> This fix exists in IcedTea (6650759-missing_inference.patch) but for
> >> whatever reason was never promoted to openjdk6.
> > Ah, OK.  That's fine, then.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andrew.
> >
> >
> 
> 

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