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23 
24 /*
25  * @test
26  * @bug 4607420
27  * @summary A bug in the original JSR14 generics specification
28  *          created a loophole in the type system.
29  *
30  * @compile/fail  Nonlinear.java
31  */
32 
33 
34 public class Nonlinear {
35 
36     // This is an example of lack of type safety for
37     // the version of javac from jsr14_adding_generics-1_0-ea
38 
39     // It is a variant of the "classic" problem with polymorphic
40     // references in SML, which resulted in the usual array of
41     // fixes: notably value polymorphism.
42 
43     // This code compiles, but produces a ClassCastException
44     // when executed, even though there are no explicit casts in
45     // the program.
46 
main(String [] args)47     public static void main (String [] args) {
48         Integer x = new Integer (5);
49         String y = castit (x);
50         System.out.println (y);
51     }
52 
castit(B x)53     static <A,B> A castit (B x) {
54         // This method casts any type to any other type.
55         // Oh dear.  This shouldn't type check, but does
56         // because build () returns a type Ref<*>
57         // which is a subtype of RWRef<A,B>.
58         final RWRef<A,B> r = build ();
59         r.set (x);
60         return r.get ();
61     }
62 
build()63     static <A> Ref<A> build () {
64         return new Ref<A> ();
65     }
66 
67     // Another way of doing this is a variant of the crackit
68     // example discussed in the draft specification.
69     //
70     // The original duplicate was:
71     //
72     // static <A> Pair <A,A> duplicate (A x) {
73     //     return new Pair<A,A> (x,x);
74     // }
75     //
76     // which breaks the requirement that a type variable
77     // instantiated by * only occurs once in the result type.
78     //
79     // However, we can achieve the same result with a different
80     // type for duplicate, which uses its type variables linearly
81     // in the result:
82 
duplicate(B x)83     static <A,B extends Ref<A>> Pair<Ref<A>,B> duplicate (B x) {
84         return new Pair<Ref<A>,B> (x,x);
85     }
86 
87     // the cheat here is that A and B are used linearly in the result
88     // type, but not in the polymorphic bounds.
89 
90     // We can use that to give an alternative implementation of
91     // castit.
92 
castit2(B x)93     static <A,B> A castit2 (B x) {
94         Pair <Ref<A>, Ref<B>> p = duplicate (build ());
95         p.snd.set (x);
96         return p.fst.get ();
97     }
98 
99 
100 }
101 
102 interface RWRef<A,B> {
103 
get()104     public A get ();
set(B x)105     public void set (B x);
106 
107 }
108 
109 class Ref<A> implements RWRef <A,A> {
110 
111     A contents;
112 
set(A x)113     public void set (A x) { contents = x; }
get()114     public A get () { return contents; }
115 
116 }
117 
118 class Pair<A,B> {
119 
120     final A fst;
121     final B snd;
122 
Pair(A fst, B snd)123     Pair (A fst, B snd) { this.fst = fst; this.snd = snd; }
124 
125 }
126