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Incorrect dereference.of.nullable warning in the scope of an enhanced for loop
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Description
Nullness checking of Daikon is failing with the following error:
daikon/AnnotateNullable.java:151: warning: [dereference.of.nullable] dereference of possibly-null reference child_rel
PptTopLevel child = child_rel.child;
^
A workaround is to change one line in daikon/java/daikon/AnnotateNullable.java from
for (PptRelation child_rel : ppt.children) {
to
for (int i = 0; i < ppt.children.size(); i++) {
PptRelation child_rel = ppt.children.get(i);
This build shows that workaround succeeding. A minimized test case on tern.cs.washington.edu is needed so the root cause can be found and the issue fixed.
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Research direction
Start with daikon/java/daikon/AnnotateNullable.java and the enhanced for loop over ppt.children that produces the dereference.of.nullable warning. Reduce this case to a minimized Java test case, using the linked type-checking build results as a reference, so the root cause can be identified and the warning is fixed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
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- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100