On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 16:19:01 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> While looking into guts of javadoc comment inheritance, I noticed that a > number of places in JDK seem to confuse JLS 8.4.6.** with JLS 8.4.8.**. > > Granted, "8.4.6 Method Throws" tangentially addresses overriding. However, I > believe that the real target should be "8.4.8. Inheritance, Overriding, and > Hiding" and its subsections. src/jdk.compiler/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/code/Symbol.java line 670: > 668: * modifier is ignored for this test. > 669: * > 670: * See JLS 8.4.8.1 (without transitivity) and 8.4.8.4 Any idea what the "(without transitivity)" is referring to here and elsewhere? ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7311
