### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P org.eclipse.jdt.core
Index: compiler/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/BinaryTypeBinding.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/eclipse/org.eclipse.jdt.core/compiler/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/BinaryTypeBinding.java,v
retrieving revision 1.99
diff -u -r1.99 BinaryTypeBinding.java
--- compiler/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/BinaryTypeBinding.java	6 Sep 2006 18:14:13 -0000	1.99
+++ compiler/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/lookup/BinaryTypeBinding.java	23 Nov 2006 16:49:45 -0000
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@
 		if (wrapper.signature[wrapper.start] == '<') {
 			// ParameterPart = '<' ParameterSignature(s) '>'
 			wrapper.start++; // skip '<'
-			this.typeVariables = createTypeVariables(wrapper, this);
+			this.typeVariables = createTypeVariables(wrapper, true);
 			wrapper.start++; // skip '>'
 			this.tagBits |=  TagBits.HasUnresolvedTypeVariables;
 			this.modifiers |= ExtraCompilerModifiers.AccGenericSignature;
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@
 			// <A::Ljava/lang/annotation/Annotation;>(Ljava/lang/Class<TA;>;)TA;
 			// ParameterPart = '<' ParameterSignature(s) '>'
 			wrapper.start++; // skip '<'
-			typeVars = createTypeVariables(wrapper, this);
+			typeVars = createTypeVariables(wrapper, false);
 			wrapper.start++; // skip '>'
 		}
 
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@
 		}
 	}
 }
-private TypeVariableBinding[] createTypeVariables(SignatureWrapper wrapper, Binding declaringElement) {
+private TypeVariableBinding[] createTypeVariables(SignatureWrapper wrapper, boolean assignVariables) {
 	// detect all type variables first
 	char[] typeSignature = wrapper.signature;
 	int depth = 0, length = typeSignature.length;
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@
 						pendingVariable = false;
 						int colon = CharOperation.indexOf(':', typeSignature, i);
 						char[] variableName = CharOperation.subarray(typeSignature, i, colon);
-						variables.add(new TypeVariableBinding(variableName, declaringElement, rank++));
+						variables.add(new TypeVariableBinding(variableName, this, rank++));
 					}
 			}
 		}
@@ -584,6 +584,10 @@
 	// initialize type variable bounds - may refer to forward variables
 	TypeVariableBinding[] result;
 	variables.toArray(result = new TypeVariableBinding[rank]);
+	// when creating the type variables for a type, the type must remember them before initializing each variable
+	// see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=163680
+	if (assignVariables)
+		this.typeVariables = result;
 	for (int i = 0; i < rank; i++) {
 		initializeTypeVariable(result[i], result, wrapper);
 	}