libgcj/4213: SimpleDateFormat constructor SEGV's.

[Anthony Green]

>Number:         4213
>Category:       libgcj
>Synopsis:       SimpleDateFormat constructor SEGV's.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 03 16:36:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Anthony Green
>Release:        3.1 20010901 (experimental)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: Linux fencer.cygnus.com 2.2.12-20smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 27 10:34:45 EDT 1999 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686

	
host: i686-pc-linux-gnu
build: i686-pc-linux-gnu
target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configured with: /fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/configure --prefix=/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i --enable-threads --enable-languages=c++,java
>Description:
	Compiling and running the attached results in...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
   at 0x401c2f41: java.lang.Throwable.Throwable() (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x401b764f: java.lang.Exception.Exception() (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x401bbeaf: java.lang.RuntimeException.RuntimeException() (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x401bb25f: java.lang.NullPointerException.NullPointerException() (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x40183497: _Jv_ThrowNullPointerException (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x402631d6: java.text.DateFormatSymbols.DateFormatSymbols(java.util.Locale) (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x4026ec7b: java.text.SimpleDateFormat.SimpleDateFormat(java.lang.String, java.util.Locale) (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x4026ebbf: java.text.SimpleDateFormat.SimpleDateFormat(java.lang.String) (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x08048f6c: sdf.main(java.lang.String[]) (/tmp/sdf.java:9)
   at 0x4019d4c8: gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.call_main() (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x402292d8: gnu.gcj.runtime.FirstThread.run() (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x401aa70c: _Jv_ThreadRun(java.lang.Thread) (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x40184254: _Jv_RunMain(java.lang.Class, byte const, int, byte const, boolean) (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x401843ad: JvRunMain (/fencer/cutlass/aph/green/trunk/gcc/i/lib/libgcj.so.2)
   at 0x08048f1c: main (/tmp/cc2lKzL1main.i:0)
   at 0x404f71eb: __libc_start_main (/lib/libc.so.6)
   at 0x08048e19: _init ((null):0)

>How-To-Repeat:
	Compile and run the following...

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;

public class sdf
{
  protected static String timestampFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";

  public static void main(String args[])
  {
    SimpleDateFormat timestampFormatter	= new SimpleDateFormat(timestampFormat);

    System.out.println (timestampFormatter);
  }
}

>Fix:
	
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