[foreign] RFR: 8225552: typedef can interfere with primitive classes

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

OK - I agree that for nested types there's not much we can do in this case.

Maurizio

On 12/06/2019 16:11, Henry Jen wrote:
> Yes, the nested Byte. I should have attach the error message into the bug report to make it clear.
>
> WARNING: symbol twoShorts is not found in any library
> java.lang.RuntimeException: In memory compilation failed: /com/example/exports_lib.java:50: error: incompatible types: Pointer<java.lang.Byte> cannot be converted to Pointer<com.example.exports_h.Byte>
>          _theLibrary.func($arg0, out);
>                                  ^
> /com/example/exports_lib.java:54: error: incompatible types: Pointer<java.lang.Long> cannot be converted to Pointer<com.example.exports_h.Long>
>          return _theLibrary.twoShorts(s, out, rv);
>                                               ^
> Note: Some messages have been simplified; recompile with -Xdiags:verbose to get full output
> 2 errors
>
> Cheers,
> Henry
>
>
>> On Jun 12, 2019, at 7:41 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 12/06/2019 14:59, Henry Jen wrote:
>>> the Byte is defined in the same source code, and will be considered before java.lang.Byte.
>> What do you mean? Are you maybe referring to a nested type declaration with name 'Byte' ?
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>> Maurizio
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