On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 22:52:41 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> A simple patch to call `Objects.requireNonNull(recv)` for an explicit null > receiver check rather than NPE thrown by `Object::getClass`. The message of > NPE generated by JEP 358 (Helpful NullPointerExceptions) is supposed to be > helpful but not in this case. Hi Mandy, This is an enhancement request not a bug and I don't think adding a performance penalty to all correct code just to produce a slightly clearer NPE message for broken code, is the right trade-off here. Cheers, David ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7766
