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RE: Analysis of Mauve failures - The final chapter

Hi,

On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 13:47, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Mark Wielaard writes:
>  > 
>  >  {
>  > +  if (! dimensions)
>  > +    throw new java::lang::NullPointerException;
>  >    jint ndims = dimensions->length;
> 
> No, this is wrong, there's no need to do this check.  The dereference
> of dimensions will generate a SEGV and throw a NullPointerException,
> unless it's running on a broken system that doesn't catch SEGV.  

You are right. Thanks for pointing that out. I should have known this. I
am so used to C/C++ code needing these kind of checks that I forgot that
it is not needed with CNI for dereferencing java objects

Cheers,

Mark
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