[GROOVY-7027] @Synchronized should be disallowed on an abstract method

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.3.6, 2.4.0-beta-2
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.7, 2.4.0-beta-3
• Component/s: xforms
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Paul King
• Created: 15/Aug/14 06:17
• Updated: 07/Apr/15 19:07
• Resolved: 15/Aug/14 06:40

Description

class Foo {
  @groovy.transform.Synchronized
  abstract void bar()
}

fails compilation with:

BUG! exception in phase 'class generation' in source unit 'ConsoleScript22' unexpected NullpointerException

Instead it should fail with a proper compiler error.