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Bug 233391

Summary: [generalize type] ignores reduced accessibility of supertype
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Friedrich Steimann <steimann>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: martinae
Version: 3.3.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Friedrich Steimann CLA 2008-05-22 02:48:05 EDT
Build ID: M20071023-1652

Steps To Reproduce:

Consider the program

package a;
class A {// not public!
	public void m() {}
}

package a;
public class B extends A {}

package b;
import a.B;
public class C {
	B b;
	void n() {
		b.m();
	}
}

Generalizing declared type of b to A breaks the program, since m() in A is not accessible for C.

More information:
Modification of member visibility by class visibility missing?
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-01-07 16:59:42 EST
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.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. 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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