Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4541?orig=1
Reporter: @retronym

Daniel Ramage (dramage) said:
There are multiple problems - one regarding 'protected' on specialized vars that are constructor parameters (which retronym worked around) and at least one more with no obvious workaround. In both cases the compiler crashes and burns.

@dragos said:
Does it work with 2.8.1?

Daniel Ramage (dramage) said:
Same errors in 2.8.1

Matthew Pocock (drdozer) said:
I'm still seeing this against 2.9.0-1 when trying to build SparseArray from scalala.

@axel22 said (edited on Sep 28, 2011 4:38:33 PM UTC):
Can you point me to an example in the source code which uses protected on specialized constructor parameter vars, and the examples of other problems? It would be easier to construct a smaller snippet where this fails and work with that.

Matthew Pocock (drdozer) said:
Try to build the SparseArray class with the constructor args set to private. The compilation will fail. You have to scope the protected access to get it to build.

@axel22 said:
A short failing snippet:

@SerialVersionUID(1L)
final class SparseArray[@specialized T](private var data : Array[T]) extends Serializable {
  def use(inData : Array[T]) = {
    data = inData;
  }
  
  def set(that : SparseArray[T]) = {
    use(that.data.clone)
  }
}

Commit Message Bot (anonymous) said:
(prokopec in r25988) Work in progress on #4541.

No review.