Description Andreas Kollegger 2003-01-02 14:46:10 EST

Using the v2.1.0 M4 Eclipse Linux/GTK (Build Id: 200212181304) and Java 1.4
compliant compiling, the JavaBuilder fails with a NullPointerException when
trying to process a java source file with an inner class which uses assert
statements.

The exception is thrown down in...

java.lang.NullPointerException	at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ClassFile.addFieldInfo(ClassFile.java:434)	at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ClassFile.addFieldInfos(ClassFile.java:579)	at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.generateCode(TypeDeclaration.java:694)
...

Produced by as trivial an example as...
public class Foo
{
  public Foo()
  {
    super();
    assert (true) : "always true"; // no problem here
  }

  public class Bar
  {
    public Bar()
    {
      super();
      assert (true) : "always true"; // build fails here
    }
  }
}