Description Ron Gavlin 2005-05-24 11:35:09 EDT

Eclipse 3.1M6.

Adding the following line of code to any Java source file breaks code completion.

private static String BAD = "\"";

OTOH, adding a leading character to the string contents as follows fixes the
problem.

private static String OK = "x\"";

Here's the .log report:

!MESSAGE The command for the key you pressed failed
!STACK 0
java.lang.NegativeArraySizeException
   at
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Scanner.getCurrentTokenSourceString(Scanner.java:501)
   at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.parser.Parser.consumeToken(Parser.java:6793)
   at
org.eclipse.internal.codeassist.impl.AssistParser.consumeToken(AssistParser.java:666)
   at
org.eclipse.internal.codeassist.complete.CompletionParser.consumeToken(CompletionParser.java:2235)
...