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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW - [IcedTea6] Backport "7159445: (javac) emits inaccurate diagnostics for enhanced for-loops""
   href="http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3014">3014</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>[IcedTea6] Backport "7159445: (javac) emits inaccurate diagnostics for enhanced for-loops"
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>IcedTea
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>6-1.13.11
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>all
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>enhancement
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P5
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>IcedTea
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>gnu.andrew@redhat.com
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>gnu.andrew@redhat.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>unassigned@icedtea.classpath.org
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        <pre>Error message in OpenJDK 8 / IcedTea 3.x is more helpful and specific.

$ /usr/lib/jvm/icedtea-6/bin/javac ForeachBadInitialization.java 
ForeachBadInitialization.java:29: not a statement
        for (a : s) {}
             ^
ForeachBadInitialization.java:29: ';' expected
        for (a : s) {}
              ^
ForeachBadInitialization.java:29: illegal start of expression
        for (a : s) {}
               ^
ForeachBadInitialization.java:29: ';' expected
        for (a : s) {}
                ^
4 errors

$ /usr/lib/jvm/icedtea-8/bin/javac ForeachBadInitialization.java 
ForeachBadInitialization.java:29: error: bad initializer for for-loop
        for (a : s) {}
             ^
1 error</pre>
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