Description Stephan Herrmann 2021-05-01 07:45:46 EDT

https://ci.eclipse.org/jdt/job/eclipse.jdt.core-run.javac-1.8/235/ lists 18 new failures, all in NullReferenceTestAsserts.

All failures look similar to this:

testBug127575a - Javac found error(s) but Eclipse did not find any.
----------- Expected ------------

------------ but was ------------
X.java:4: error: cannot access Assert\n
    org.eclipse.core.runtime.Assert.isLegal(o != null);\n
                            ^\n
  bad class file: /home/jenkins/agent/workspace/eclipse.jdt.core-run.javac-1.8/.repository/p2/osgi/bundle/org.eclipse.equinox.common/3.15.0.v20210428-1632/org.eclipse.equinox.common-3.15.0.v20210428-1632.jar(org/eclipse/core/runtime/Assert.class)\n
    class file has wrong version 55.0, should be 52.0\n
    Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.\n
1 error\n

This happens since https://git.eclipse.org/c/equinox/rt.equinox.bundles.git/commit/?id=06804a4bd425941257a3d6bfee0f79464ceb2503 "Bug 573093: Update BREE to Java 11"

This implies that the mentioned class Assert is off limits for run.javac-18 tests.