scala/scala — pull request #918 by xeno-by (2012-07-16 22:24:31+00:00)
Title: SI-6086 magic symbols strike back

Some of the symbols inside the compiler get created on the fly,
because there are no physical entities in classfiles corresponding to them.

This curious fact needs to be taken into account when loading symbols,
so that the magic symbols get correctly loaded by reflective mirrors.

magicSymbols (as defined in Definitions.scala) include not only
top-level classes, but some other stuff (e.g. String_+ or methods on Any).
Hence a filtering was done to exclude the stuff that's irrelevant
to reflective symbol loading.

Unfortunately a filter was configured to accept only _.isClass,
which consequently ruled out scala.AnyRef (that is a type alias).