Review request: update javac to properly output mandated parameters in MethodParameters attributes (original) (raw)

Alex Buckley alex.buckley at oracle.com
Thu Feb 7 14:08:25 PST 2013

On 2/7/2013 12:51 PM, maurizio cimadamore wrote:

Another case - private constructors:

class Outer { class Inner { private Inner() { } } Inner i = new Inner(); } javac will append to the Inner's constructor an extra argument called 'accessTag' - which is essentially a type token.

This parameter certainly seems to be neither explicitly declared nor implicitly declared, so javac should mark it ACC_SYNTHETIC. A javac-specific document should enumerate the growing list of constructs which are marked like that.

Alex

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