invocation of URL(null) crashes VM

Name: kaC94536 Date: 11/19/99



The following test crashes Linux VM when JIT is used:

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

import java.net.*;

public class test {

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
   
       try {
            new URL(null);
       } catch(Exception e) {
       }
       System.out.println("Ok");
    }
}

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

$ java -fullversion
java full version "1.2.2-D"
$ java -Djava.compiler=no test
Ok
$ java -Djava.compiler=javacomp test
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$

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