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Bug 234549

Summary:

[compiler][null] Redundant null check warning fooled by assert

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Olivier Lefevre <lefevrol>

Component:

Core

Assignee:

JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>

Status:

VERIFIED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

Version:

3.3.2

Target Milestone:

3.4 M1

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Bug8.java	none

Description Olivier Lefevre

2008-05-29 04:11:40 EDT

Build ID: M20080221-1800

Steps To Reproduce:
ecj -warn:+null Bug8.java

More information:
assert is a runtime feature; the compiler cannot know that -ea will be specified and should conservatively treat the check as non-redundant.

Comment 1 Olivier Lefevre

2008-05-29 04:13:02 EDT

Created attachment 102581 [details]
Bug8.java

Comment 2 Maxime Daniel

2008-05-29 04:36:13 EDT

This is a deliberate design decision. Please see details in duplicate bug 198044.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198044 ***

Comment 3 Frederic Fusier

2008-09-16 10:22:20 EDT

Verified during 3.5M2 milestone verification process...