Summary: | AST: No error message generated for unreachable code | ||
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Product: | [Eclipse Project] JDT | Reporter: | Jared Burns <jared_burns> |
Component: | Core | Assignee: | Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | P3 | ||
Version: | 2.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | 2.0 M6 | ||
Hardware: | Other | ||
OS: | other | ||
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Description
Jared Burns
2002-04-30 11:52:52 EDT
I don't see how we can report this error. The "Unreachable code" is detected in the flow analysis. There is no flow analysis done when we convert the compiler's AST into a DOM/AST. The resolution doesn't imply a flow analysis. getMessages() states that it returns the list of messages reported by the compiler during the parsing or name resolution of this compilation unit. I will change it to specify more clearly that this list might be a subset of the problems returned by the compiler when the corresponding source is compiled. In summary, reporting this kind of error is outside the scope of the DOM/AST. This is the kind of error that only a full Java compiler is ever going to give you. If you need to detect this kind of error, your only serious option is to invoke the Java compiler. This bug report should be rejected. |