Roman Kennke wrote: > my collegue Fridjof has been playing around with data flow > analysis and spotted some interesting points where we could improve > robustness a little. For the most part this creates local variables > for fields in some places (see ChangeLog entry below) and operates > on these instead of the fields themselves. This way we make 100% > sure that the fields isn't nullified in between. While it may appear > clear to us that this never happens, with the described approach > it can easily be proven(!) that this can't happen (for example, > using DFA tools).
IMO the SystemProperties changes are wrong. If there is a bug somewhere that causes a property to by queried *during* the static initializer of SystemProperties, we *want* the system to crash with a NullPointerException, not to silently fail and cause problems down the road. Regards, Jeroen
