When passed null instead of a Object value many JDI methods will throw
NullPointerException. The spec does not declare these NullPointerExceptions.

A few of many such cases:

          StackFrame.getValue(LocalVariable variable)
          StackFrame.getValues(java.util.List variables)

          Argument.isValid(null)
          BooleanArgument.isValid(null)
          StringArgument.isValid(null)



Name: elR10090 Date: 04/28/2001


This bug causes failure of the following testbase_nsk tests:

    nsk/jdi/Argument/isValid/isvalid002
    nsk/jdi/Argument/setValue/setvalue001
    nsk/jdi/BooleanArgument/isValid/isvalid002

Such record containing full test names allows to automatically
generate the following list of known test failures (we maintain
it updated every working day):

    /net/sqesvr.eng/export/vsn/VM/testbase/nsk_stuff/buglist_nsk/nsk.knownbugs

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