> On 5 Nov 2017, at 16:55, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/11/2017 7:28 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
>>> On 3 Nov 2017, at 11:14, Karen Kinnear <karen.kinn...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 6. SD::find_java_mirror_for_type
>>> You have resolve_or_null/fail doing CHECK_(empty) which should
>>> check for a NULL constant_type_klass. This is followed by an explicit if
>>> (constant_type_klass == NULL) — is that needed?
>>>
>> Can SD:resolve_or_null return a null value when HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION=false?
>
> I don't believe it actually can - the only reason you would get NULL is if
> something went wrong, for which an exception must be pending. However, even
> the internal implementation underlying this seems unclear on that point
Right, i am gonna leave things as they are for now unless we come up with a
more definitive answer.
Paul.
> e.g in SystemDictionary::resolve_instance_class_or_null we have:
>
> if (HAS_PENDING_EXCEPTION || k == NULL) {
> return NULL;
> }
>
> David
> ——
