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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-6356679

add an option to disable the suppression of warnings

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      A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
      The @SuppressWarning annotation allows the developer to suppress warnings of a particular category

      This enhancement requests that sun add an additional command qualified to the javac command, to allow the compiler to emit more detailed messaged which would otherwise be suppressed


      JUSTIFICATION :
      When a developer writes some code and suppresses warning witth the @SuppressWarning annotation then the details of the warnign are not produced.

      For code review purposes it would be useful to disable this suppression for the the reviewees can see the warning, and assess the risk, and perhaps change the code (or some other library) so as to eliminate the warning, and therefore the need for the suppression

      Also if a method is marked with @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") to cater for some API limitation. If then subsiquently the code is modified to add some additional feature (which through some coding error) has some other unchecked warning, then the warning will not be masked.

      As the annotation refers to the method, not the line then there s no easy was to detect this

      If a facility like this enhancement was implemented then the QA of the code could comple the code with this suppression disabled and the detect that the cont of suppressed warnings has changed, and investigate further

      EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
      EXPECTED -
      javac -XdisableSuppressedWarnings -Xlint ....
      Warning ..... [unchecked] ...

      or

      javac -XsuppressedWarningsAsNotes -Xlint ....
      Note ... [unchecked] ....
      ACTUAL -
      javac -Xlint ....

      Note: ... uses unchecked or unsafe operations.
      Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.

      (when lint was actually specified

      CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
      checkout code
      delete all @suppress warnings
      compile

      checkout code
      make changes
      checkin code

      and repeat ...

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            jlahoda Jan Lahoda
            rmandalasunw Ranjith Mandala (Inactive)
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