Expected behavior with -esa

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/11/2011 20:04, Brandon Passanisi wrote:
> I'm currently looking at a bug report: 
> http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=5066854 which describes an 
> issue where a simple program was run with the option -esa to enable 
> system assertions.  The bug author describes that, in the provided 
> sample code, an AssertionError occurs when the spec says a 
> MissingFormatArgumentException should be thrown.  When running the 
> sample program without the -esa option, a 
> MissingFormatArgumentException is thrown.  It seems to me that it 
> shouldn't be unexpected to see an AssertionError when -esa is used, 
> instead of the MissingFormatArgumentException.  In fact, this behavior 
> appears to not be limited to this particular test case, and can 
> possibly occur with other APIs if an AssertionError is seen before an 
> expected exception.  I was hoping to see some sort of explanation in 
> the evaluation or comments section of the bug report, but the bug 
> report was only updated with references about how the bug was filed 
> too late for a release.  Can someone clarify if this behavior with 
> -esa is actually a bug?
>
> Thanks.
The AssertionError just means it's tripping up on an assert in the code. 
Looks like it still happens too.

-Alan.