Bug in javac ?

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Oct 31 16:48:52 UTC 2011


> Am 31.10.2011 17:00, schrieb Deepak Bhole:
> 
>> It looks like a known bug in the 6 compiler related to interface 
>> inheritance and covariant return types. I think this is the commit 
>> that fixed it in 7:
>>
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/jdk7/langtools/rev/4a3b9801f7a0
>>
>> If you have code that resembles the above and would like to see the
>> fix backported to 6, please feel free to open a bug.
> 
> Thanks. Bug is open (#750301)

This one should be submitted to the tools people @ Oracle rather than
just patched into Icedtea, I think.  Their input might avoid us breaking
anything.

Andrew.


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