Debugging NPE during CanonicalizerPhase

[Stefan Marr]

Hi:

I am trying to debug an NPE I get while running TruffleSOM on top of Graal.

Would be great if someone could give me a hint, how to debug it.

For a bit of context, I got the latest Graal code checked out and compiled for debugging.
The invocation looks like this:
  /mx.sh -d --debug --vm server vm -G:+DumpOnError -Xbootclasspath/a:../som/build/classes som.vm.Universe -cp ../TruffleSOM/Smalltalk ../TruffleSOM/Examples/Benchmarks/Loop.som

With a connected Eclipse, I was able to figure out that a FrameGetNode has a value for `slot` that is a ConstantNode with the value null (i.e. slot.asConstant().isNull() == true).

Now I am a bit stuck, because it looks like the FrameGetNode is never actually instantiated with such a ConstantNode object for the slot field, so I assume, it is changed somewhere later. However, I have no clue where that might happen.

What also confuses me is that there is no setter for the slot field, and ConstantNode as well as Constant look rather immutable to me.

I have the feeling I am missing something rather basic here.
Any hints would be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Stefan


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