Type annotations in static initializers

[Werner Dietl]

Jon, all,

I just noticed that type annotations in a static initializer block are
not stored in bytecode.
Take this example:

class Test {
    static {
	Object o = new @TA Object();
    }
}

Attr.visitBlock correctly attributes the annotation and in the end
localEnv.info.scope.owner contains the @TA annotation.
The owner.toString() gives "Test" and is of kind STATIC_INIT.

However, in com.sun.tools.javac.jvm.ClassWriter.writeMethod(MethodSymbol)
I later see a MethodSymbol for "<clinit>()" of kind STATIC_INIT.
This symbol no longer contains the type annotations and therefore
nothing gets written to bytecode.

Can somebody point me to the place where the MethodSymbol from Attr is
re-written into the MethodSymbol that ends up in the ClassWriter?
I spent some time looking through the code but didn't find this.
Maybe type annotations should be copied over whenever one symbol is
re-written into another one?

Thanks for any hints!
cu, WMD.

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