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The fix in bug 414038 comment 10 excludes type annotations from recovery. A previous patch in bug 414038 comment 2 only fixed the malformed AST problem without excluding type annotations from recovery, but this fix likely is incomplete. At some moment of leisure we should revive and polish that patch.
I am deferring this to 4.4. The dominant usage for type annotations is going to be marker interfaces that implement type qualifiers - these cannot be broken as much as normal annotations and so recovery is not that crucial. We will pull this up to Java 8 if time permits.
Just a note that where type annotations occur in SE7 locations, they are recovered and attached as much as declaration annotations. From the parser's point of view these are SE7 annotations. The current recovery system, tracks "pending annotations" annotations and attached them to elements as they get recovered - these are all SE7 annotatable elements.
bulk move out of 4.8
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