2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/test/files/neg/nested-annotation.check b/test/files/neg/nested-annotation.check
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index 0000000000..ca263943fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/files/neg/nested-annotation.check
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+nested-annotation.scala:3: warning: Implementation restriction: subclassing Classfile does not
+make your annotation visible at runtime.  If that is what
+you want, you must write the annotation class in Java.
+class ComplexAnnotation(val value: Annotation) extends ClassfileAnnotation
+      ^
+nested-annotation.scala:8: error: nested classfile annotations must be defined in java; found: inline
+  @ComplexAnnotation(new inline) def bippy(): Int = 1
+                     ^
+one warning found
+one error found
diff --git a/test/files/neg/nested-annotation.scala b/test/files/neg/nested-annotation.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..35c0cd3b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/files/neg/nested-annotation.scala
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+import annotation._
+
+class ComplexAnnotation(val value: Annotation) extends ClassfileAnnotation
+
+class A {
+  // It's hard to induce this error because @ComplexAnnotation(@inline) is a parse
+  // error so it never gets out of the parser, but:
+  @ComplexAnnotation(new inline) def bippy(): Int = 1
+}