These are mainly small changes in how source-locations are ascribed to synthetic expressions, plus three real changes:
- The comment extractor is performing better presumably due to improvements in the underlying representation
- *= /= and %= operations are once again extracted correctly; presumably their origin information has been fixed
- Reference to a static final Java field can lead to more constant propagation than before
The last one might be a minor nuisance to someone trying to find references to such a field.
This matches the Java extractor's treatment of these literals, and so enables dataflow type-tracking to avoid special-casing Kotlin. Natively, Kotlin would regard this as kotlin.Nothing?, the type that can only contain null (kotlin.Nothing without a ? can take nothing at all), which gets Java-ified as java.lang.Void, and this will continue to be used when a null type has to be "boxed", as in representing substituted generic constraints with no possible type.