Dr Andrew John Hughes said the following on 03/22/11 09:32:
On 21 March 2011 22:40, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
So from our perspective the main impediment to dropping 1.4 is that the SA
code uses enum as an identifier and so needs to be updated to either change
names or else change to Java 5 enums. How did you avoid this problem?
Are you sure this use still exists? I've found no evidence of it when
grepping through the source code and javac compiles the code fine in
source/target 1.6 mode when the compareTo issues are fixed.
The closest I could find is:
src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/code/Location.java: // type safe
enum for "Where"
src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/code/Location.java: // type safe
enum for "Type"
src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/code/Location.java: // constants in Type enum
src/share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/code/Location.java: // constants in
Where enum
which seem to be emulating enums and could be potentially converted to
the 'real thing'.
Well there is:
./share/classes/sun/jvm/hotspot/debugger/cdbg/basic/BasicEnumType.java:
private static class Enum {
but that doesn't cause a problem. Looks like the "institutional memory"
is out of date on this.
Thanks,
David
