Review request for java.text.** warning cleanup

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 12/02/2011 11:48 AM, Joe Darcy wrote:
> 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


That was true, and is no longer true.  The dependency got "fixed" when 
we moved langtools into a separate repo/build, and committed langtools 
to being able to work on the boot JDK.

-- Jon