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-rw-r--r--libjava/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index 91f20e7..9d5f97e 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2000-12-08 Warren Levy <warrenl@redhat.com>
+ * java/lang/StringBuffer.java (insert(int,char[])): Avoid
+ NullPointerException so proper check of offset can be done.
+
+2000-12-08 Warren Levy <warrenl@redhat.com>
+
* java/io/FileInputStream.java (close): Check if the fd is valid.
* java/io/RandomAccessFile.java (close): Ditto.
* java/net/PlainDatagramSocketImpl.java (close): Ditto.
diff --git a/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java b/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java
index 6e00fa7..0455ca6 100644
--- a/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java
+++ b/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java
@@ -454,7 +454,9 @@ public final class StringBuffer implements Serializable
*/
public StringBuffer insert (int offset, char[] data)
{
- return insert (offset, data, 0, data.length);
+ // One could check if offset is invalid here instead of making sure that
+ // data isn't null before dereferencing, but this works just as well.
+ return insert (offset, data, 0, data == null ? 0 : data.length);
}
/** Insert the <code>char[]</code> argument into this