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package org.spongepowered.asm.mixin.injection;

import java.lang.annotation.ElementType;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;

/**
 * Indicates that a local capture injector should coerce top-level primitive
 * types to covariant types.
 * 
 * <p>During LVT generation it is not always possible to inflect the exact local
 * type for types represented internally as integers, for example booleans and
 * shorts. However adding a surrogate for these cases is overkill when the type
 * is known for certain by the injector. Since the bytecode for all types stored
 * as integer interally will be valid, we can force the local type to any
 * covariant type as long as we know this in advance.</p>
 * 
 * <p>This annotation allows a covariant type parameter to be marked, and thus
 * coerced to the correct type when the LVT generation would otherwise mark the
 * type as invalid.</p>
 */
@Target({ ElementType.PARAMETER })
public @interface Coerce {
    
}