Patch: FYI: Properties fixlet

[Tom Tromey]

This came across the Classpath list recently.

I'm checking it in to the trunk and the 3.3 branch.

Tom

Index: ChangeLog
from  Julian Dolby  <dolby@us.ibm.com>

	* java/util/Properties.java (load): Ignore backslash before EOF.

Index: java/util/Properties.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/java/util/Properties.java,v
retrieving revision 1.20
diff -u -r1.20 Properties.java
--- java/util/Properties.java 24 Dec 2002 23:37:45 -0000 1.20
+++ java/util/Properties.java 31 Jan 2003 06:09:15 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Properties.java -- a set of persistent properties
-   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Classpath.
 
@@ -271,6 +271,13 @@
                   {
                     // The line continues on the next line.
                     line = reader.readLine();
+
+		    // We might have seen a backslash at the end of
+		    // the file.  The JDK ignores the backslash in
+		    // this case, so we follow for compatibility.
+		    if (line == null)
+		      break;
+
                     pos = 0;
                     while (pos < line.length()
                            && Character.isWhitespace(c = line.charAt(pos)))