Bug 277874

Summary:

[1.5][compiler] Error not shown in IDE: Generic Enum assignment

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Martin Kunert <martin.kunert>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

Kent Johnson <kent_johnson>

Status:

VERIFIED NOT_ECLIPSE

QA Contact:

Severity:

major

Priority:

CC:

Olivier_Thomann

Version:

3.4.2

Target Milestone:

3.5 RC3

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
class which does not compile with JDK but in IDE	none

Description Martin Kunert

2009-05-26 11:27:43 EDT

Build ID: M20090211-1700

Steps To Reproduce:
Eclipse IDE does not show the compiler error, when running javac.exe the compiler generates the follwing error log:

GenericEnums01.java:6: <T>getEastingUnit(java.lang.Class<T>) in buggy.GenericEnums01 cannot be applied to (java.lang.Class<capture of ?>)
                Enum<?> a = this.getEastingUnit(eastingUnit.getDeclaringClass());


More information:

Comment 1 Martin Kunert

2009-05-26 11:29:42 EDT

Created attachment 137171 [details]
class which does not compile with JDK but in IDE

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann

2009-05-26 13:56:30 EDT

javac 1.6_14 or javac 7.0b59 also compile this code fine.

Comment 3 Kent Johnson

2009-05-26 14:22:42 EDT

This is a bug in javac 1.5 that has since been fixed in the current javac 6 & 7 builds.

Eclipse is compiling this code without errors, as are javac 6 & 7.

Comment 4 Olivier Thomann

2009-05-27 15:27:48 EDT

Verified for 3.5RC3 using I20090526-2000.