Bug 581259 - eclipse does not recognize shadowing class member
Summary: eclipse does not recognize shadowing class member
Status: NEW
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Product: Incubator
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: e4 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
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Assignee: E4 Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2022-12-22 05:35 EST by Korneel Dumon CLA
Modified: 2022-12-22 05:35 EST (History)
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Description Korneel Dumon CLA 2022-12-22 05:35:10 EST 
Created attachment 288899 [details]
debugging

I accidentally shadowed a protected class member variable in a subclass. If I inspected the variable while debugging eclipse showed me the info on the baseclass member rather than the subclass member which was actually used.

In the attached screenshot you can see that the `wait` variable seems to be initialized when inspecting it. But at the top of the screenshot there is another (shadowing) variable which is clearly null. In the next step a NullPointerException happened which had me confused for a while.