Review request for java.text.** warning cleanup
Joe Darcy
joe.darcy at oracle.com
Fri Dec 2 11:48:56 PST 2011
On 12/2/2011 11:32 AM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> * Rémi Forax<forax at univ-mlv.fr> [2011-12-02 14:23]:
>> Hi Deepak,
>>
>> On 12/02/2011 07:47 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>> * John Rose<john.r.rose at oracle.com> [2011-12-01 19:49]:
>>>> On Dec 1, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Deepak Bhole wrote:
>>>>
> [ ... ]
>
>>> Ah, I wasn't sure if I should have used 7-specific features so I stayed
>>> away from them (when bootstrapping when ecj, we found diamond to be
>>> problematic as older ecj versions cannot understand it). I will change
>>> these then.
>> You can use them everywhere but in langtools because
>> the compiler need to bootstrap itself.
> Ah okay, thanks.
>
FYI, at least in prior incarnations of the JDK build process, there are
also small portions of the core libraries, e.g. the primitive wrapper
classes, that are built using the bootstrap compiler under an earlier
source level.
-Joe
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