On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:24 -0700, David Daney wrote: > Too bad if the type that should be thrown does not have a constructor > that takes a chained Throwable as its cause. If this is the case use > Throwable.initCause(). There is a reason that this method exists: It > is so that we can use it to report the best information available about > what went wrong.
Ok, how about this then.... AG Index: java/lang/String.java =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/java/lang/String.java,v retrieving revision 1.70 diff -u -r1.70 String.java --- java/lang/String.java 13 Sep 2005 22:19:15 -0000 1.70 +++ java/lang/String.java 16 Sep 2005 00:55:59 -0000 @@ -641,8 +641,10 @@ throw new UnsupportedEncodingException("Encoding: "+enc+ " not found."); } catch(CharacterCodingException e){ - // XXX - Ignore coding exceptions? They shouldn't really happen. - return null; + // This shouldn't really happen. + InternalError ie = new InternalError(); + ie.initCause(e); + throw ie; } } _______________________________________________ Classpath-patches mailing list Classpath-patches@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath-patches