On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 05:52:44 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> In `AnnotatedTypeBaseImpl`, a `decl` field is declared, referring to the > declaration that the AnnotatedType is from. However, this field is not used > anywhere except passing to constructors of other implementations; it's not > used in debug messages (unlike in `TypeAnnotation`), not involved in equality > checks. Since these implementations are not serializable, we can safely > remove the decl field from the implementations. All 1048 java/lang tests pass > on my machine. Thanks Joe Darcy. This will simplify another patch I am working on to fix some annotation mismatches within reflection. In addition, `TypeAnnotation` has a `baseDecl` field that only serves for a momentary appearance in `toString`. Should that be removed as well? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13183#issuecomment-1522529351
