NPE on "return" bytecode of java.net.NetworkInterface

[David M. Lloyd]

On 11/14/2016 09:29 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 14/11/16 14:47, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>
>> Since this method is called from a native method, is it possible
>> that somehow the native method is generating an NPE, but the Java
>> method is still in the stack context?  I assume that what is
>> happening here is some kind of class init order snafu, but it's
>> pretty tricky to diagnose exactly with this non-intuitive stack.
>
> java.net.NetworkInterface.getAll() will return null if it fails to
> create an instance of NetworkInterface.  It's quite possible that
> inlining will make it appear that a NPE at getAll's caller is reported
> at the return.
>
> Try either TieredStopAtLevel=1 or disable compilation for getAll().

I thought inlining was not supposed to affect stack traces... if this is 
the case, is it a bug?
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- DML