On 16:48 Mon 31 Oct , Andrew Haley wrote: > > > 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. > It's worth a try, but they've been pretty unhelpful in the past. The OpenJDK6 toolset is a mess (being some fairly random point in the development of the 7 compiler) and their main contribution has being to break the TCK run. On that note, a good initial test for this would be to see if the patched version passes the TCK. Then post to compiler-dev and jdk6-dev. > Andrew. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
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