[foreign] RFR 8211277: Exception when dereferencing null pointer should be more specific

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

Yes, would be nice to have it consistent & revisit the macro for all 
tests later as you mentioned.

-Sundar

On 01/10/18, 2:40 PM, Jorn Vernee wrote:
> Sundararajan Athijegannathan schreef op 2018-10-01 05:06:
>> Looks good.
>>
>> PS. While I'm fine with the Windows portability EXPORT macro in C
>> code, none of the other existing tests use this. Perhaps we need
>> similar such portability macro elsewhere? Not suggesting for current
>> changeset though.
>
> I have them in my local copy for every test, I could make a patch for 
> those as well, but without wider Windows support they're not as 
> meaningful to have right now. Maybe the one in this changeset should 
> be removed as well to be added in later with all the others.
>
>> -Sundar
>>
>>
>> On 28/09/18, 6:35 PM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> this is a RFR for the changes discussed in [1] (again, thanks 
>>> Jorn!). Some minor tweaks:
>>>
>>> * consolidate the code paths for 'throwy' References - new 
>>> Reference.OfGrumpy :-)
>>>
>>> * tweaked test to check the exception cause - as otherwise the test 
>>> passes even w/o the fix
>>>
>>> Webrev:
>>>
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/8211277/
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Maurizio
>>>
>>> [1] - 
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/panama-dev/2018-September/002796.html
>>>