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Re: FYI: Adding RuntimeException checks
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
Mark> Also sometimes libgcj throws NullPointer exceptions were it
Mark> shouldn't which aborts the rest of the test completely.
Please submit gcj bug reports for these.
Mark> It is a workaround for bugs in libgcj. But some testlets have
Mark> hundreds of tests which just don't run if one of those throws an
Mark> unexpected RuntimeException or Error. The real solution is to
Mark> split those testlets into smaller ones that only test one
Mark> particular method.
I appreciate what you're doing here. However even though I care a lot
about gcj I want to emphasize that I think we shouldn't let these
changes impact the maintainability of the tests themselves.
Tom