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 *     Stephan Herrmann - Contribution for
 *								Bug 438458 - [1.8][null] clean up handling of null type annotations wrt type variables
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package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.lookup;

// Give it an identity of its own to discriminate the fact that this type is not annotatable and so is a singleton.
public class NullTypeBinding extends BaseTypeBinding {

	NullTypeBinding() {
		super(TypeIds.T_null, TypeConstants.NULL, new char[] { 'N' }); // N stands for null even if it is never internally used);
	}
	
	public TypeBinding clone(TypeBinding enclosingType) {
		return this;  // enforce solitude.
	}
	
	public void setTypeAnnotations(AnnotationBinding[] annotations, boolean evalNullAnnotations) {
		return; // reject misguided attempt.
	}
	
	public TypeBinding unannotated() {
		return this;
	}
}