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3.3 RC1 Found several of these in my .log. Nothing obvious in UI. Sorry, no steps. !ENTRY org.eclipse.jdt.ui 4 0 2007-05-21 09:59:48.505 !MESSAGE Error in JDT Core during reconcile !STACK 0 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.endParse(Parser.java:8041) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.util.CommentRecorderParser.endParse(CommentRecorderParser.java:131) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.SourceElementParser.endParse(SourceElementParser.java:748) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:9022) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.parseStatements(Parser.java:9491) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser$1$MethodVisitor.endVisit(Parser.java:9779) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.Initializer.traverse(Initializer.java:121) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.recoverStatements(Parser.java:9855) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:9055) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.parse(Parser.java:9269) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.Initializer.parseStatements(Initializer.java:77) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.parseMethod(TypeDeclaration.java:812) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.getMethodBodies(Parser.java:8252) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.SourceElementParser.parseCompilationUnit(SourceElementParser.java:1526) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CompilationUnit.buildStructure(CompilationUnit.java:148) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.Openable.generateInfos(Openable.java:229) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaElement.openWhenClosed(JavaElement.java:505) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CompilationUnit.makeConsistent(CompilationUnit.java:1020) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.makeConsistent(ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.java:170) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.executeOperation(ReconcileWorkingCopyOperation.java:89) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelOperation.run(JavaModelOperation.java:720) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaModelOperation.runOperation(JavaModelOperation.java:780) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.CompilationUnit.reconcile(CompilationUnit.java:1169) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy$1.run(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:101) at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:37) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy.reconcile(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:82) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.java.JavaReconcilingStrategy.reconcile(JavaReconcilingStrategy.java:149) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.CompositeReconcilingStrategy.reconcile(CompositeReconcilingStrategy.java:86) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.JavaCompositeReconcilingStrategy.reconcile(JavaCompositeReconcilingStrategy.java:96) at org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.MonoReconciler.process(MonoReconciler.java:75) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.text.JavaReconciler.process(JavaReconciler.java:378) at org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler.AbstractReconciler$BackgroundThread.run(AbstractReconciler.java:204)
I did't found how to reproduce the bug. The stacktrace show that the parser failed to create the initial recovery state and return a null recovered element. As i didn't know what cause this failure, i can only add a null check to avoid the NPE.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 204662 ***
Indeed the stack trace looks similar.