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Bug 538420

Summary:	[null][correlation] Wrong "potential null pointer access" with boolean
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	BjÃ¶rn SchÃ¶nrock <private1>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	stephan.herrmann
Version:	4.7.3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:

Description BjÃ¶rn SchÃ¶nrock

2018-08-30 09:36:45 EDT

I have the following code:


final boolean announce = ...;
final String announcement = announce ? ... : null;

if (announce) {
  announcement.doStuff(); // "Potential null pointer access: The variable announcement may be null at this location"
}


I don't think I need to explain anything here.

Comment 1 Stephan Herrmann

2018-08-30 10:21:40 EDT

(In reply to BjÃ¶rn SchÃ¶nrock from comment #0)
> I don't think I need to explain anything here.

Please find my explanation in the other bug :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 538421 ***