[8u40] Request for Approval: 8067039: Revert changes to annotation attribute generation

[Seán Coffey]

Approved. Please add 9-na to the bug report.

I've not sure what bug record policy is in such scenarios but I think the
8u40 records for JDK-8029012 and JDK-8065132 need to be reverted to
something like "will not fix" ?

regards,
Sean.

On 11/12/2014 14:43, Eric McCorkle wrote:
> Please approve JDK-8067039, which reverts JDK-8029012 and JDK-8065132,
> which cause previous versions of javac in 8 not to be able to load some
> classfiles generated by the current 8u javac.
>
> After discussions amongst the langtools team, it was decided that the
> change should be backed out in 8u, but kept in 9 in order to work
> towards a more complete solution to the underlying problem (see
> JDK-8066725 and JDK-8062582 for details)
>
> The patch was created cleanly by reverting JDK-8029012 and JDK-8065132.
>   The patch ran cleanly through a JPRT run.  Review was conducted on
> compiler-dev, and it was approved by Jonathan Gibbons.
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~emc/8067039/
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8067039