>>>>> J P Lewis writes:
> below is a program that has a bug - it doesn't create an array
> before assigning into it (happens in a constructor).
> Under 116v4a/glibc, the program says "Can't find class" rather than
> printing a nice stacktrace. Under 115v5,7 it sometimes prints the
> stacktrace; sometimes the constructor returns null and no (correct)
> error is printed.
This is a known Sun bug in 1.1, it is fixed in 1.2b4.
Actually java should report something like:
shape constructor, initializing
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at bblobBUG.<clinit>(bblobBUG.java:48)
The bug can be reproduced very easy:
// Test.java
class C
{
static Object[] objs;
static {
objs[0] = null;
}
}
public class Test
{
static C c = new C();
public static void main(String[] args) {}
}
Juergen
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