diff -r 30a415f8667f -r 6542933af8f4 src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/comp/AttrContext.java
--- a/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/comp/AttrContext.java	Fri Aug 08 17:38:20 2008 +0100
+++ b/src/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/comp/AttrContext.java	Fri Aug 08 17:43:24 2008 +0100
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@
      */
     Lint lint;
 
+    /** The variable whose initializer is being attributed
+     * useful for detecting self-references in variable initializers
+     */
+    Symbol enclVar = null;
+
     /** Duplicate this context, replacing scope field and copying all others.
      */
     AttrContext dup(Scope scope) {
@@ -77,6 +82,7 @@
         info.varArgs = varArgs;
         info.tvars = tvars;
         info.lint = lint;
+        info.enclVar = enclVar;
         return info;
     }