SimpleDateFormat

Thu Jun 19 12:28:00 GMT 2008

- - wrote:
> Hi,
> in attach is my complete source test case.
>> The output with gcj "3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)" is:
>> $ snippetCalendar.exe 
> Test for SimpleDateFormat
> datai:29-Dec-99 11:00:09 PM
>> That is ok.
>> The output with "4.3.0 20080305 (alpha-testing) mingw-20080502" is:
>> $ snippetCalendar.exe 
> Test for SimpleDateFormat
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
> at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(fake:0)
> at java.util.Currency.getInstance(fake:0)
> at java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols.<init>(fake:0)
> at java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(fake:0)
> at java.text.NumberFormat.computeInstance(fake:0)
> at java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(fake:0)
> at java.text.SimpleDateFormat.<init>(fake:0)
> at snippetCalendar.main(fake:0)
> Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
> at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(fake:0)
> at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(fake:0)
> at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(fake:0)
> at java.util.Properties.load(fake:0)
> at java.util.Currency.<clinit>(fake:0)
> at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(fake:0)
> ...7 more

Sorry, I can't reproduce that on my GNU/Linux system. It looks like a
Windows-specific problem reading the system properties file. Perhaps
someone who understands mingw could help you.
Andrew.