RFR(S): 8182585: [MVT] Reading an uninitialized static value type field should not throw a NPE

[Frederic Parain]

On 06/20/2017 01:17 PM, Tobias Hartmann wrote:
> Hi Roland,
>
> thanks for the review!
>
> On 20.06.2017 18:30, Roland Westrelin wrote:
>> That looks good to me but it's unfortunate we have to add a
>> runtime check.
>
> Yes, we could check the static field value at compile time by
> accessing it through the Java mirror (similar to
> ciField::constant_value()) and only emit a runtime check if it's
> NULL. That assumes that once the field is non-NULL it will always
> stay non-NULL which should be guaranteed, right?

Correct, because value types are non-nullable.

Fred