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From: Bryce McKinlay <bmckinlay@gmail.com>
To: David Michel <dmichel76@googlemail.com>
Cc: java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to deal with non-generic (legacy) code ?
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7230133d0908040821n20b93a83x52020fc022c42e3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5bf7a380908040809n691480caib4107ffd7d77479c@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:09 PM, David Michel <dmichel76@googlemail.com> wrote:

> We all know that generics have been introduced in jdk 1.5 and that
> Sun's javac still accepts raw types for backward compatibility.
>
> With gcj, however, one will always get some warnings like "Vector is a
> raw type. References to generic type Vector<T> should be
> parameterized" when using raw types. It's easy to write the code with
> generics properly so that these warnings do not appear, however, how
> does one deal with, for instance, a method from a somewhat older
> legacy code that returns a raw type.
>
> What is the proper way to deal with this ?
> Is there a way to switch these warnings off ?


Put @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") at the top of the method (or class)
that does the unchecked type parameter conversions.
Bryce

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-04 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-04 15:09 David Michel
2009-08-04 15:20 ` Philip A. Chapman
2009-08-04 15:21 ` Bryce McKinlay [this message]
2009-08-04 15:26   ` David Michel
2009-08-04 15:28 ` Andrew John Hughes

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