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Bug 101512

Summary:

[compiler] Useless fields generated for anonymous classes

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Keith W. Campbell <keithc>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

3.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

stalebug

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Sample code	none

Description Keith W. Campbell

2005-06-23 13:55:04 EDT

Anonymous classes that don't make reference to fields or methods of outer
classes don't need synthetic this$0 fields. Eliminating them would yield a
(small?) time and space improvement.

BTW, even Sun's java(5.0) compiler does this!

Comment 1 Keith W. Campbell

2005-06-23 13:56:38 EDT

Created attachment 23879 [details]
Sample code

Comment 2 Philipe Mulet

2005-06-23 16:33:15 EDT

We did it in the past, and took this out to better mimic some JLS semantics. Now
it is true that we could optimize them out in the end.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2020-04-20 06:33:00 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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