if size is zero it returns null thats the cascading error that parfait is finding asserts turn into nothing with product builds so i need a dead stop here to shut up parfait :(
Sent from my iPhone On Jun 11, 2012, at 22:56, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 12/06/2012 12:48 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote: >> >> Need reviewer. >> >> I was asked to look at some Parfait errors in hprof code: >> >> 7176138: Fixes for missing close() calls and possible null pointer reference >> instead of fatal error >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ohair/openjdk8/parfait_hprof_fixes/webrev/ > > > hprof_table.c > > 211 if ( ltable->info_size == 0 ) { > 212 HPROF_ERROR(JNI_TRUE, "Table is empty and should never be."); > 213 return NULL; > > It is not obvious this should be a fatal error. Elsewhere this is handled as > an assert. > > David