Segfault on calling methods on null:

Jules Bean jmlb2 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Wed Mar 24 06:00:39 PST 1999


This should be a NullPointer exception, but it segfaults:

public class NullTest {
    static void main(String[] args) {
	((Object)(null)).toString();
    }
}

Jules

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