Found several minor thigns wrong with checkSens...

Found several minor thigns wrong with checkSensible, which tries to
issue warnings for comparisons which will always be true or false. No
review.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/backend/JavaPlatform.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/backend/JavaPlatform.scala
index 8d77eef488..8373f9bfd6 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/backend/JavaPlatform.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/backend/JavaPlatform.scala
@@ -33,12 +33,18 @@ trait JavaPlatform extends Platform[AbstractFile] {
   def externalEqualsNumChar = getMember(BoxesRunTimeClass, "equalsNumChar")
   def externalEqualsNumObject = getMember(BoxesRunTimeClass, "equalsNumObject")
 
+  /** We could get away with excluding BoxedBooleanClass for the
+   *  purpose of equality testing since it need not compare equal
+   *  to anything but other booleans, but it should be present in
+   *  case this is put to other uses.
+   */
   def isMaybeBoxed(sym: Symbol): Boolean = {
     import definitions._
     (sym == ObjectClass) ||
     (sym == JavaSerializableClass) ||
     (sym == ComparableClass) ||
     (sym isNonBottomSubClass BoxedNumberClass) ||
-    (sym isNonBottomSubClass BoxedCharacterClass)
+    (sym isNonBottomSubClass BoxedCharacterClass) ||
+    (sym isNonBottomSubClass BoxedBooleanClass)
   }
 }