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Diffstat (limited to 'libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java')
| -rw-r--r-- | libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java | 11 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java b/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java index 70f78fb..7f6e42e 100644 --- a/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java +++ b/libjava/java/lang/StringBuffer.java @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ // StringBuffer.java - Growable strings. -/* Copyright (C) 1998, 1999 Cygnus Solutions +/* Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000 Red Hat This file is part of libgcj. @@ -241,12 +241,9 @@ public final class StringBuffer implements Serializable public StringBuffer (String str) { - // Note: nowhere does it say that we should handle a null - // argument here. In fact, the JCL implies that we should not. - // But this leads to an asymmetry: `null + ""' will fail, while - // `"" + null' will work. - if (str == null) - str = "null"; + // The documentation is not clear, but experimentation with + // other implementations indicates that StringBuffer(null) + // should throw a NullPointerException. count = str.length(); // JLS: The initial capacity of the string buffer is 16 plus the // length of the argument string. |