(Distilled from report by Victor.Rudometov@oracle.com in compiler-dev@openjdk.java.net)

Given the following program:

public class X {
    public void method() throws @Annot SomeException {}
}

JDK 9b70 has started issuing messages of the form:

X.java:2: error: cannot find symbol
    public void method() throws @Annot SomeException {}
                                 ^
  symbol: class Annot
  location: class X
X.java:2: error: scoping construct cannot be annotated with type-use annotation: Annot
    public void method() throws @Annot SomeException {}
                                       ^
2 errors

The second error message is bogus - happens because internally we are classifying SomeException
as a package name inadvertently. So the second error does not qualify as a recoverable (resolution
related error) and so annotation processing round is skipped.