Strange covariant/generics downcasting issue with JDK8

[Mark Derricutt]

On 24/09/2013, at 12:52 AM, Mario Torre <neugens.limasoftware at gmail.com> wrote:

> > AppTest.java -g -nowarn -target 1.5 -source 1.5
> 
> This looks like the cause, no?
> 
I had thought maybe as well, but I get the same issue with "-target 1.8 -source 1.8", and if javac no longer supports 1.5 I would have expected an "invalid source release" error earlier in the process.


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