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

[Andrew Haley]

On 06/23/2014 02:30 PM, Ivan Krylov wrote:
> Andrew, thank you.
> Just pushed the changes.
> BTW, icedtea patches 6650759-missing_inference.patch and 
> 6638712-wildcard_types.patch are now redundant.
> 
> 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.

Deepak Bhole has been doing some digging, and he found this:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-December/002195.html

"For the javac changes, backporting 6638712 in and of itself would be
fine; however, backporting 6650759 would be problematic since it
implements a type-inference specification change in JDK 7.  There are
differences between the type inference behavior of javac in OpenJDK 6
and the propriety JDK this issue is one of them.  The inference
algorithm in OpenJDK 6 could be reworked a bit, but I don't expect the
javac team to have cycles for that task in the near future."

For that reason, I should not have approved this patch; it has
already been rejected.  I intend to back it out.

Andrew.