Javac NPE

[Benji Weber]

Hi Vicente,

Thanks. I was just confused by the statuses.

Bug does indeed seem to be fixed in the latest u40-ea snapshot (although
still present in u25)

--
benji

On 17 October 2014 19:14, Vicente-Arturo Romero-Zaldivar <
vicente.romero at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi Benji,
>
> I closed the bug because it couldn't be reproduced with last javac code
> for 8 and 9 (http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/langtools and
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/langtools/). If you can still
> reproduce the bug with any of these repos please notify it to us.
>
> Thanks,
> Vicente
>
>
> On 10/08/2014 04:47 AM, Benji Weber wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There is an NPE in javac (8u20) that I am running into regularly. It's
>> quite a pain because it takes a considerable amount of time to track down
>> the offending code each time it occurs.
>>
>> I filed a bug report with a simple test case, but after a few weeks in
>> the aether it appeared in JIRA as closed - not an issue. Any ideas why?
>>
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8059511
>>
>> The comments suggest it is related to this other bug
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8058921 - which was closed due
>> to lack of a test case, but I provided a short and complete testcase with
>> my report.
>>
>> Do you think it is indeed a bug? How can I progress this now? I can't see
>> a way of creating a JIRA login to comment on the issues. Is it only open to
>> Oracle employees?
>>
>> Many Thanks
>>
>> --
>> benji
>>
>
>
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