Description Kay Huber 2009-02-27 10:42:51 EST

After updating my eclipse this morning to 3.4.2 Build M20090211-1700 I suddenly had an eclipse compiler error on an enum type in our projects which was previously working just fine.

I created a test project to verify and can reproduce the problem (test project attached):

Create an enum type with the following content:

public enum FailingEnum {

	// Following line: having the dummyField declared here causes "Syntax errors on tokens, delete tokens" compilation failure in Eclipse 3.4.2 Build M20090211-1700
	// javac confirms with "<identifier> expected"
	// public final static int dummyField = 1;

	// Following line correctly causes "Cannot reference a field before it is defined" compilation failure in Eclipse 3.4.2 Build M20090211-1700
	// javac confirms with "illegal forward reference"
	// SimpleEnumElement1(dummyField),

	// Following line _incorrectly_ causes "Cannot reference a field before it is defined" compilation failure in Eclipse 3.4.2 Build M20090211-1700
	// javac 1.6.0_06 compiles this line without problems.
	SimpleEnumElement2(FailingEnum.dummyField);

	public final static int dummyField = 1;

	private FailingEnum(int dummy) {

	}
}

with javac (checked with 1.6.0_06) this class compiles like this just fine. 
Eclipse however complains on line 13 with "Cannot Reference a field before it is defined":

SimpleEnumElement2(FailingEnum.dummyField);