Bug 18287

Summary: <Clinit> change is treated as a structural change by incremental builder
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>
Component: CoreAssignee: Jerome Lanneluc <jerome_lanneluc>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.0 F2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
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Description Philipe Mulet CLA 2002-05-30 06:54:30 EDT 
Build 20020528

If a <clinit> method is added/removed, it is treated as a structural change, 
and will therefore induce recompiling all dependents.

This can be nasty when adding a bogus import on an interface, though it affects 
nobody, a <clinit> might get added to report the problem (problem method) and 
therefore a major recompilation can be triggered if interface is quite used.
Comment 1 Kent Johnson CLA 2002-05-30 13:28:34 EDT 
We now by default ignore synthetic fields/methods & clinit methods.
Comment 2 Jerome Lanneluc CLA 2002-06-03 10:12:24 EDT 
Verified