Kaffe and Mauve (Was: Re: [kaffe] Re: LinkedList.subList severely broken)

[Dalibor Topic]

Hallo Helmer,

--- Helmer Krämer <hkraemer@freenet.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2003 09:30:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Dalibor Topic <robilad@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> does anybody know why mauve tests whether the implementation
> throws a NullPointerException under certain circumstances?
> 
> I've got Kaffe's java.util.Vector down to:
> 
> FAIL: gnu.testlet.java.util.Vector.AcuniaVectorTest: should throw
> NullPointerException (number 1)
> FAIL: gnu.testlet.java.util.Vector.AcuniaVectorTest: should throw
> NullPointerException (number 1)
> FAIL: gnu.testlet.java.util.Vector.AcuniaVectorTest: should throw
> NullPointerException (number 1)
> FAIL: gnu.testlet.java.util.Vector.AcuniaVectorTest: should throw
> NullPointerException (number 1)
> 4 of 388 tests failed
> 
> and all of these tests fail because mauve expects
> Vector.removeAll() and Vector.retainAll() to throw
> a NullPointerException when the collection passed
> as a parameter is null. I wouldn't call that a
> correct behaviour, though.

>From the spec:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/api/java/util/Vector.html#removeAll(java.util.Collection)

Throws:
    NullPointerException - if the specified collection is null.

(and the same holds for retainAll).

cheers,
dalibor topic

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