Description Shawn Lauzon 2006-08-31 03:30:13 EDT

If I enable the "Null reference" warning, it flags the following two problems:

    void foo() {
        String bar1 = null;
        String bar2 = null;
        bar1.toString(); // Variable bar1 can only be null
        int c = 0;
        if (c == 0) {
            bar2 = "foo";
        }
        bar2.toString(); // Variable bar2 may be null
    }

The compiler KNOWS that the first one is an error, so I would like to mark the serverity as "Error". The compiler just thinks the second one is suspicious, so I would like to mark it as "Warning". However, since they are under a single compile option, I can't do this.

There are other things this flag catches; basically I would like code that is definitely going to throw an NPE to be a separate option than simply suspicious code.