On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 05:52:44 GMT, Chen Liang <li...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> In `AnnotatedTypeBaseImpl`, a `decl` field is declared, referring to the > declaration that the AnnotatedType is from. However, this field is not used > anywhere except passing to constructors of other implementations; it's not > used in debug messages (unlike in `TypeAnnotation`), not involved in equality > checks. Since these implementations are not serializable, we can safely > remove the decl field from the implementations. All 1048 java/lang tests pass > on my machine. I wonder why no one is interested in this? Looks useful as lot's of Java frameworks are annotation-based ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13183#issuecomment-1521355623