Class compiles in Eclipse but not in javac (1.8) (access to a private field from the annotation)

[lrozenblyum]

Class compiles in Eclipse but not in javac (1.8) (access to a private field from the annotation)

[iloveeclipse]

Just to double-check @iloveeclipse - 'works with master' means that Eclipse compiler now produces an error like javac?

Oh, I'm sorry, I misread the bug report, I assumed ecj produces error.

So ecj doesn't report any error here, I assume because it inlines the constant value into annotation.
Without reading JLS spec I honestly would say that ecj is right. Why should the value be not accessible here?

But @srikanth-sankaran would for sure know right JLS chapter and would explain which rule applies here and who does it wrong - ecj or javac :-)

[iloveeclipse]

Works with master (I20230705-1800) with both java 8 / 17 target.
Please try latest build https://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/I20230707-0600/ and if that still doesn't work for you, please attach full project with project settings, may be some specific compiler option is not default one.

[lrozenblyum]

Just to double-check @iloveeclipse - 'works with master' means that Eclipse compiler now produces an error like javac?

[lrozenblyum]

@iloveeclipse @srikanth-sankaran maybe this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/54424804/1429367
and the referred JLS chapter https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se11/html/jls-6.html#jls-6.6.1
could be helpful.