Description Joachim Sauer 2008-08-21 07:59:30 EDT

Build ID: I20080617-2000

Steps To Reproduce:
1.Create a class Caller in package p1:

package p1;

import p2.Callee;

public class Caller {
	public void bar() {
		Callee.foo(new Object());
	}
}

2. Create a class Callee in package p2:

package p2;

public class Callee {
	public static void foo(final Object... varargs) {
	};

	protected static void foo(final Object singleArg) {
	};
}

3. compile using Eclipse (ecj): compilation succeeds without warnings or errors
4. compile using javac (tried with 1.6.0_06 and 1.6.0_10 rc1): the following error is reported:

p1/Caller.java:7: foo(java.lang.Object) has protected access in p2.Callee
		Callee.foo(new Object());
		      ^
1 error

More information:
I don't know which compile follows the spec correctly in this case, but there is a discrepancy that should be looked into.