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Bug 499315

Summary: [rename method] A behavior preserving transformation (Rename Method Refactoring) is rejected. [Renaming native methods will cause an unsatisfied link error on runtime. Related method (declared in ) is native. Renaming will cause
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Melina Mongiovi <melmongiovi>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 4.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Mac OS X   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Melina Mongiovi CLA 2016-08-06 19:09:00 EDT
Behavior Preserving Transformation is rejected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create the following program
package p;
class A {
  native void m();
}


2. Rename method A.m to k

3. The tool does not apply the transformation and warn the following message:
Renaming native methods will  cause an unsatisfied link error on runtime.  Related method  (declared in )  is native. Renaming will cause an UnsatisfiedLinkError on runtime.

4. However, the following possible resulting program compiles and the transformation preserves the program behavior, which indicates that some refactoring conditions may be overly strong. 

package p;
class A {
  native void k();
}
Comment 1 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-11-07 12:14:52 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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