Pass a pointer to JNI_GetCreatedJavaVMs() instead of null

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/05/2012 16:45, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> Hi David, Deven, Alan,
>> The spec doesn't say anything but the implementation does check for 
>> NULL. I think this is a spec issue rather than a code issue (and I 
>> think hotspot-runtime owns the JNI spec so cc'ed). It is common 
>> practice for API's that take pointers like this to say "if buf is not 
>> NULL then the value of XXX is written into buf". Particularly as in 
>> this case there will only ever be at most 1 VM created per-process 
>> anyway.
>>
>> I'm more concerned about the fact that the code doesn't even check if 
>> JNI_GetCreatedVMs returns successfully!
>
> Ouch!, I will file a CR and fix this.
I think HotSpot can only ever return JNI_OK so it may only be a 
potential issue when running with another VM.

-Alan