On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 22:49:25 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. > > Mandy Chung has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a > merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes > brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional > commits since the last revision: > > - Move the null check after isInstance check > - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into JDK-8282776 > - JDK-8282776: Bad NullPointerException message when invoking an interface > MethodHandle on a null receiver I did a quick sanity run of the reflection microbenchmarks. I eyeball the numbers and don't spot any difference. OTOH, since the `isInstance` check covers the null check, moving the null check inside the exception case is a better fix. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/7766