FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
N/A

ADDITIONAL OS VERSION INFORMATION :
Irrelevant (maybe you should update bugs.sun.com so that it stops telling me I can't report under 'Generic/other'? Half of the bug sections are not OS-specific in the first place!

A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Section 4.7.16.1 of the JVM Specification explains how annotations are encoded in the class file.

For the 'class_info_index' section, the example lists, and I quote:

the type that is reified by the
class represented by this element_value structure (e.g., ‘V’
for Void.class, ‘Ljava/lang/Object;’ for Object, etc.)


This example is wrong; the typo is 'Void.class'. This should be 'void.class' (lowercase v!).

void.class becomes 'V'.

Void.class becomes 'Ljava/lang/Void'.


For thoroughness I've double-checked and both javac7 and ecj get it right and produce 'Ljava/lang/Void;' for @Foo(value=Void.class) and not 'V'.


Solution: Fix the typo.


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
@Foo(void.class)
public class Test {}

@interface Foo {
    Class<?> value();
}

---------- END SOURCE ----------