Name: viR10068 Date: 12/08/2003


The spec 'A Program Annotation Facility for the Java Programming Language' says:
"
Annotation types must not contain members of the same annotation type,
either directly or indirectly. In other words, this is illegal:

// Illegal self-reference!!
@interface SelfRef {
    SelfRef value();
}
"
But the compiler jdk1.5-b30 compile it successfully.
        
The following JCK tests are failed due to this bug:
lang/ANNOT/annot047/annot04701/annot04701.html

The source code:
-------------------------- test.java ----------------------------
@interface testID {
    testID id();
}
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Execution log (no errors reported):
% jdk1.5.0-b30/solaris-sparc/bin/javac -source 1.5 -target 1.5 -version test.java
javac 1.5.0-beta
%

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Name: viR10068 Date: 12/08/2003


Also for illegal circularity:
"
Annotation types must not contain members of the same annotation type,
either directly or indirectly. In other words, this is illegal:

// Illegal circularity!!
@interface Ping {
    Pong value();
}

@interface Pong {
    Ping value();
}
"
But the compiler jdk1.5-b30 compile it successfully.
        
The following JCK tests are failed due to this bug:
lang/ANNOT/annot048/annot04801/annot04801.html

The source code:
-------------------------- test.java ----------------------------
@interface Ping {
    Pong value();
}

@interface Pong {
    Ping value();
}
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Execution log (no errors reported):
% jdk1.5.0-b30/solaris-sparc/bin/javac -source 1.5 -target 1.5 -version test.java
javac 1.5.0-beta
%


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