I am creating a buffered image of type TYPE_INT_ARGB with a specific size. I am getting the GIF writer from the registry and writing this empty, transparent buffered image to a file. As soon as I call, writer.write(bi), I am getting a NullPointerException on the console.

This is reproducible on all platforms. This is not reproducible for other writers and occurs only for GIF. This is seen since Mustang-b39.

I have attached a sample test. Execute the sample test. If you see the following exception on the console, the bug is reproduced.

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.common.PaletteBuilder.findPaletteEntry(PaletteBuilder.java:310)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.common.PaletteBuilder.getIndexColorModel(PaletteBuilder.java:296)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.common.PaletteBuilder.getIndexedImage(PaletteBuilder.java:145)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.common.PaletteBuilder.createIndexedImage(PaletteBuilder.java:77)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.gif.GIFImageWriter.write(GIFImageWriter.java:569)
at com.sun.imageio.plugins.gif.GIFImageWriter.write(GIFImageWriter.java:499)
at javax.imageio.ImageWriter.write(ImageWriter.java:598)
at WriteARGBEmptyImage.<init>(WriteARGBEmptyImage.java:30)
at WriteARGBEmptyImage.main(WriteARGBEmptyImage.java:41)

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