[kaffe] Bug Report: accessing array doesn't throw NullPointerException under MIPS

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Kevin,

could you take a look at it? 

cheers,
dalibor topic

--- Matthew Tippett <matthew.tippett at sympatico.ca>
wrote:
> The quote code below has differing behaviour under a
> MIPS (Little 
> Endian) and an intel box, both running debian.
> 
> Both are against 1.0.7, but the MIPS platform has
> had the following 
> patch applied (which allowed it to work).
> 
>
ftp://ftp.paralogos.com/pub/kaffe/mips/kaffe-1.0.7.patch_kevink_021001
> 
> public class Hello {
>     public static void main(String arv[]) {
>        int[][] test    = new int[1][];
>        try {
>           System.out.println("Getting test[0][0]");
>           System.out.println("Got "+test[0][0]);
>        } catch (NullPointerException e) {
>           System.out.println("Caught Null POinter
> Exception!");
>        }
>     }
> }
> 
> The intel box does as expected ...
> 
> 	Getting test[0][0]
> 	Caught Null POinter Exception!
> 
> But the MIPS box does
> 
> 	Getting test[0][0]
> 	Internal error: caught an unexpected exception.
> 	Please check your CLASSPATH and your installation.
> 	java/lang/NullPointerException
> 	Aborted
> 
> The java code we can work around (the code is
> questionable but in the 
> Xerces java library.
> 
> Looking forward to working through this problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthew
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