Javac gives me java.lang.AssertionError: {unused} (on Java 1.5.0_06 + 04)

Question

I'm getting java.lang.AssertionError: {unused} when I attempt to compile a project, both using ANT and javac on the command line.
It recomends that a file a bug report, I am however not really able to post the code as-is to Sun, and have been unsuccessful in chopping down the code to just the bug.
Has anyone come across this before? Any recomendatations oon chopping the source down?
Thanks, Mike (pissed off)
An exception has occurred in the compiler (1.5.0_06). Please file a bug at the J
ava Developer Connection (http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport)  after checking
the Bug Parade for duplicates. Include your program and the following diagnosti
c in your report.  Thank you.
java.lang.AssertionError: {unused}
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker$AnnotationBuilder.visitArray(TreeM
aker.java:634)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Attribute$Array.accept(Attribute.java:124)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker$AnnotationBuilder.translate(TreeMa
ker.java:637)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker$AnnotationBuilder.visitCompoundInt
ernal(TreeMaker.java:628)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker$AnnotationBuilder.translate(TreeMa
ker.java:641)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker.Annotation(TreeMaker.java:649)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker.Annotations(TreeMaker.java:570)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeMaker.VarDef(TreeMaker.java:554)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitIterableForeachLoop(Lower.java:28
92)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitForeachLoop(Lower.java:2755)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$ForeachLoop.accept(Tree.java:597)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1881)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeTranslator.translate(TreeTranslator.java
:54)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeTranslator.visitBlock(TreeTranslator.jav
a:145)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitBlock(Lower.java:2927)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$Block.accept(Tree.java:535)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1881)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.TreeTranslator.visitMethodDef(TreeTranslator
.java:129)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitMethodDefInternal(Lower.java:2267
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitMethodDef(Lower.java:2186)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$MethodDef.accept(Tree.java:478)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1881)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.visitClassDef(Lower.java:1989)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.tree.Tree$ClassDef.accept(Tree.java:434)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1881)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translate(Lower.java:1901)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Lower.translateTopLevelClass(Lower.java:3064
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:486)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:592)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.main.Main.compile(Main.java:544)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.compile(Main.java:67)
        at com.sun.tools.javac.Main.main(Main.java:52)

Answer 1

Looks like it's in the annotation processing code
(but I'm sure you knew that).No I did not, it has me completely stumpted, a "please rase a bug report" says to me something as gone badly wrong.
I'd start doing a binary chop of annotations until it
stops. You might also want to load up the file in
Eclipse, to see if it flags anything as unusual.No problems in Eclipse flagged
Looks like this oneAhhh, thanks. It was.
Thank you both of you. I'd show you with Grolish, but you are too far away, so dukes will have to do instead.