Name: viR10068 Date: 12/08/2003


The spec 'A Program Annotation Facility for the Java Programming Language' says:
"
Annotations may be used as modifiers in any declaration, whether class,
interface, field, method, parameter, constructor, enum, or local variable.
"

But the compiler jdk1.5-b30 rejects the valid java source with
message: 'illegal start of expression'.

The following JCK tests are failed due to this bug:
lang/ANNOT/annot020/annot02003/annot02003.html

The source code:
-------------------------- test.java ----------------------------
import java.io.PrintStream;

@interface testID {
}

public class test1 {

    public int m() {
@testID int i = 123;
return i;
    }

    public static int run(String argv[], PrintStream out) {
return 0;
    }

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
System.exit(run(argv, System.out) + 95/*STATUS_TEMP*/);
    }
}
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Execution log:
% jdk1.5.0-b30/solaris-sparc/bin/javac -source 1.5 -target 1.5 -version test.java
javac 1.5.0-beta
test.java:9: illegal start of expression
        @testID int i = 123;
        ^
1 error
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