Bug 175830 - [preferences] "Null access" would be more clear than "Null reference"
Summary: [preferences] "Null access" would be more clear than "Null reference"
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.3 M7   Edit
Assignee: Markus Keller CLA
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Reported: 2007-02-28 09:09 EST by Dani Megert CLA
Modified: 2007-05-04 04:35 EDT (History)
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Description Dani Megert CLA 2007-02-28 09:09:47 EST 
I20070227-0800.

"Null access" would be more clear than "Null reference" - in fact null reference is wrong.
Comment 1 Markus Keller CLA 2007-02-28 09:32:22 EST 
Another possibility:
Null reference -> NullPointerException (or: Guaranteed NullPointerException)
Potential null reference -> Potential NullPointerException
Comment 2 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2007-03-02 11:08:26 EST 
Philippe, what's your opinion here?
Comment 3 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2007-03-02 11:09:23 EST 
Also adding Maxime for this discussion.
Comment 4 Maxime Daniel CLA 2007-03-03 03:14:19 EST 
We may consider aligning with the error messages resulting from bug 175570?
This would leave us with 'Null pointer access' and 'Potential null pointer access'.
Comment 5 Markus Keller CLA 2007-03-20 07:43:12 EDT 
I like comment 4.
Comment 6 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2007-03-21 07:43:46 EDT 
I think the suggestions from comment 4 are good
Comment 7 Dani Megert CLA 2007-03-22 12:06:20 EDT 
+1 as well for comment 4. M7?
Comment 8 Markus Keller CLA 2007-03-23 13:17:01 EDT 
Fixed.
Comment 9 Dani Megert CLA 2007-05-04 04:35:38 EDT 
Verified in I20070503-1400.