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Bug 270590

Summary:	java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.bugs.InfiniteRecursion.run
Product:	java	Reporter:	theshadow27 <theshadow27>
Component:	Hints	Assignee:	Svata Dedic <sdedic>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	8.2
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	log file

Description theshadow27 2017-05-08 17:37:26 UTC

Created attachment 164277 [details]
log file

INFO [org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.providers.code.CodeHintProviderImpl$WorkerImpl]: org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.bugs.InfiniteRecursion.run
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr$ResultInfo.attr(Attr.java:496)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribTree(Attr.java:637)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribType(Attr.java:696)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribType(Attr.java:689)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.MemberEnter.visitVarDef(MemberEnter.java:416)
	at com.sun.tools.javadoc.JavadocMemberEnter.visitVarDef(JavadocMemberEnter.java:86)


...

Caused: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor124.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
[catch] at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.providers.code.CodeHintProviderImpl$WorkerImpl.createErrors(CodeHintProviderImpl.java:340)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.spiimpl.hints.HintsInvoker.runHint(HintsInvoker.java:821)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.spiimpl.hints.HintsInvoker.access$400(HintsInvoker.java:113)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.spiimpl.hints.HintsInvoker$ScannerImpl.runAndAdd(HintsInvoker.java:680)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.spiimpl.hints.HintsInvoker$ScannerImpl.scan(HintsInvoker.java:699)
	at org.netbeans.modules.java.hints.spiimpl.hints.HintsInvoker$ScannerImpl.scan(HintsInvoker.java:633)

...


SEVERE [org.openide.util.Exceptions]
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr$ResultInfo.attr(Attr.java:496)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribTree(Attr.java:637)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.comp.Attr.attribType(Attr.java:696)


... there is an associated dump file too.

Comment 1 theshadow27 2017-05-08 17:39:34 UTC

This is possibly related to the second variety of Bug 250595 where 
	at com.sun.tools.javac.code.Types$SameTypeVisitor.visitType(Types.java:1283)

because that started happening right after this one in the log.