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Re: Passing #!null as <java.lang.String>

To: brlewis at alum dot mit dot edu
Subject: Re: Passing #!null as <java.lang.String>
From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
Date: 05 Sep 2001 08:34:28 -0700
Cc: bmd at cs dot nwu dot edu (Brian M. Dennis), kawa at sources dot redhat dot com
References: <m2bskpn898.fsf@colombia.cs.northwestern.edu><nm9wv3d4x24.fsf@kindness.mit.edu>

brlewis@alum.mit.edu writes:

> Kawa is smart about coercing to java.lang.String -- calling the
> toString() method on the object.  A one-line change in
> gnu/bytecode/ObjectType.java just before line 61 to check if obj ==
> null will probably fix this problem.

That makes as behave differently depending on whether it is applied
or inline-compiled.
-- 
	--Per Bothner
per@bothner.com   http://www.bothner.com/per/

References:
- Passing #!null as <java.lang.String>
  - From: Brian M. Dennis
- Re: Passing #!null as <java.lang.String>
  - From: brlewis

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