Description Maxime Daniel 2005-06-29 11:06:02 EDT

Eclipse 3.1

The following source:
public @interface A {
	A circular1(); 				// (a1)
	B circular2();				// (a2)
}

@interface B {
	A circular2();				// (b)
}

gets circularity errors reported on lines a1 and b (line a2 is missing).
Commenting out line a1 allows to get the error on line a2.
Swapping lines a1 and a2 like below still gets a single error reported on A,
line a2 (which means the compiler only reports the first of such errors for a
given annotation type definition into a considered compilation unit, and that
moreover the depth of the cycle does not influence which error gets picked up.)

public @interface A {
	B circular2();				// (a2)
	A circular1(); 				// (a1)
}

@interface B {
	A circular2();				// (b)
}