Problem with type annotations on a type parameter

[Joel Borggrén-Franck]

Hi,

I just pushed my fix for repeating annotations on type parameters (there was some delay in registering me as a committer).

This problem looks similar, is it fixed if you pull the latest langtools repo?

cheers
/Joel

On Apr 5, 2013, at 3:02 AM, Werner Dietl <wdietl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jon, Steve, all,
> 
> I'm debugging some strange behavior and I would appreciate a quick look by somebody else. I'm probably missing something very obvious.
> 
> Take the attached class that contains a class nested within an anonymous class.
> Compile with the type-annotations javac and you'll get this output:
> 
> ClassWriter: Position UNKNOWN in type annotation: @TA
> ClassWriter: Position UNKNOWN in type annotation: @TA
> 
> That's bad, as it means that the type annotation is not written. We confirm this by running javap:
> 
> javap -v NestedTest\$1\$Inner.class
> 
> Nothing on the type parameter.
> 
> The strange thing is that this works if we remove the declaration of field i1.
> It also works if instead of a method type parameter we declare a method parameter, or a class type parameter, or if the class is outside of the anonymous class.
> 
> Does anybody understand the dependency between field i1 and the type parameter X?
> 
> Steve: could you expand the tests in tools/javac/annotations/typeAnnotations/referenceinfos/ to ensure that annotations in anonymous classes and lambdas work as expected?
> Please also add a failing test for this.
> 
> Thanks,
> cu, WMD.
> 
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> <NestedTest.java>