invocation of Boolean.getBoolean(null) crushes VM

Name: kaC94536 Date: 11/12/99



The following test crushes Linux VM:

----------------------------- test.java ------------------------

public class test {

  public static void main( String[] argv ) {
    try {
        Boolean.getBoolean(null);
    } catch(NullPointerException e) {
        System.out.println("Ok");
    }
  }
}

-------------------------------- output --------------------------

$ /public/jdk/jdk1.2.2/linux/bin/java -fullversion
java full version "1.2.2-RC1"
$ /public/jdk/jdk1.2.2/linux/bin/java -Djava.compiler=javacomp test
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

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The same crashe occur when we invoke methods Integer.getInteger and
Long.getLong with null argument.

Being run without JIT VM does everithing well:

-------------------------------- output --------------------------

$ /public/jdk/jdk1.2.2/linux/bin/java test
Warning: JIT compiler "sunwjit" not found. Will use interpreter.
Ok
$

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