RE: [cdt-dev] Disassembly view throws NPE when debugging with CDI

[John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:51 PM 6/17/2010, Andy Jin wrote:
> There is a distinction between API method and non-API method. For API
> method if it says to return null we'd better respect it. The method in
> question "getTopStackFrame()" is an API method from
> org.eclipse.debug.core.model.IThread.

Absolutely. I had not looked at the javadoc for the method; I was 
addressing the question generally. In this case, we can for sure say 
callers to IThread.getTopStackFrame() should check the return value 
for null. That said, that alone does not necessarily solve this 
problem. As you stated, there might be something deeper going wrong 
here. All we can say for sure is that the fix will include a check 
for null. I'll hopefully get to the bottom of this today.

John