How to handle a NullPointerException

Thu Feb 21 15:19:00 GMT 2008

Dimiter Stamenov wrote:
> >__cyg_profile_func_enter() is just a C function that takes two void* args
> >
> >void __cyg_profile_func_enter( void *this, void *callsite )
> >
> >Define it and link with your program.
> >
> >Do *not* compile this C code with `-finstrument-functions'.
> >
> >Andrew.
> >
> >
> >void __cyg_profile_func_enter( void *this, void *callsite )
> >{
> > /* Function Entry Address */
> > fprintf(fp, "E%p\n", (int *)this);
> >}
> >
> >
> >void __cyg_profile_func_exit( void *this, void *callsite )
> >{
> > /* Function Exit Address */
> > fprintf(fp, "X%p\n", (int *)this);
> >}
>> OK I have compiled successfully with -finstrument-functions and a new exception is thrown (not thrown when compiled without it)... I am wondering why everything is OK when running with JVM - if there is not an exception with it, then may be the problem is not in the java code?
>> The result from gdb is:
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: universal.exe
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\ntdll.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\kernel32.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\advapi32.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\rpcrt4.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\msvcrt.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\user32.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\gdi32.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2_32.dll
> Loaded symbols for D:\WINDOWS\system32\ws2help.dll
> java.io.IOException: Unable to read entire header; 1 byte read; expected 512 bytes
> at org.apache.poi.poifs.storage.HeaderBlockReader.<init>(universal.exe)
> at org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem.<init>(universal.exe)
> at org.apache.poi.hwpf.HWPFDocument.verifyAndBuildPOIFS(universal.exe)
> at org.apache.poi.hwpf.extractor.WordExtractor.<init>(universal.exe)
> at org.apache.poi.Universal.getWordFileText(universal.exe)
> at org.apache.poi.Universal.main(universal.exe)

All I can tell is that there is something wrong. I can't tell why using 
-finstrument-functions would make any difference. I'd have to debug it.
It seems to me that the system is very unstable, so you are seeing random
corruption.
Do you still see this if the __cyg_profile functions are empty?
Andrew.