Bug 364690

Summary: Suspect visibility checking code in compiler.
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Srikanth Sankaran <srikanth_sankaran>
Component: CoreAssignee: JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: amj87.iitr, stephan.herrmann
Version: 3.8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Srikanth Sankaran CLA 2011-11-24 04:29:02 EST 
Follow up from https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=364672#c1.

org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.lookup.ReferenceBinding.canBeSeenBy(PackageBinding)
reads:

/**
 * Answer true if the receiver is visible to the invocationPackage.
 */
public final boolean canBeSeenBy(PackageBinding invocationPackage) {
    if (isPublic()) return true;
    if (isPrivate()) return false;

    // isProtected() or isDefault()
    return invocationPackage == this.fPackage;
}

which does patently wrong things in some cases. See org.eclipse.jdt.core.tests.compiler.regression.VarargsTest.test072() for example.
Usage of this code need to be investigated.
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-03-10 12:38:20 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

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