RFR: JDK-8175325 - NetworkInterface.getInterfaceAddresses throws NPE when no addresses

[Chris Hegarty]

Mark,

> On 6 Mar 2017, at 23:21, Mark Sheppard <mark.sheppard at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> tha's true from the Java side. I didn't exhaustively check if is possible that the bindings could
> be returned uninitialized or null from native code - I don't think it is possible, but I added the
> null check, just in case.

I agree with Martin’s comment. The null check should be sufficient.
…

>> There is a side issue here, relating to the synthesis of a NetworkInterface for a MulticastSocket
>> bound to a wildcard address. This is somewhat dubious semantics, and would seem to be worthy of review
>> at some stage in the future.

Yes, this should be looked at in some more detail in the future.

-Chris.