On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you think of a situation when the null check will introduce some > instability or regression? I actually persuaded by Chunrong's point -- that's double checking, so no problems should occur.
As for introducing new bugs, consider the issue described in HARMONY-6013 is really covering some other deadly issue. Consider the workload where NPE is not firing because of H6013, so after H6013 gets fixed the control flow in that workload is going differ than in tested M8. As many uses of the helper, as many the chances the control flow differs. Having that, we can't say the change is minor. If I will be able eventually to say that similar changes are "limited impact"-issues, then you should employ me as oracle tester <g> :) Of course, that's the speculation if this is actually a double null checking. I just want not to guess while talking about milestones. Thanks, Aleksey.
