On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 23:29:38 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review a simple fix for an NPE in doclint, in JDK 17. > > The NPE is caused by checking if an unknown tag is self-closing. The fix is > to move the check into the arm of the preceding `if` statement that ensures > that the tags is not null. Effectively, we do not valid whether unknown > tags may be self-closing. > > The potential for the NPE has been there a long time. The check that triggers > the NPE became more likely when we removed support for HTML4. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: 0011b52e Author: Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/commit/0011b52ee81d88b023f771432abc079c64266578 Stats: 32 lines in 3 files changed: 28 ins; 1 del; 3 mod 8264843: Javac crashes with NullPointerException when finding unencoded XML in <pre> tag Reviewed-by: hannesw ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk17/pull/86