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Bug 587286 - valac stops with assertion when 'catch' has no arguments
valac stops with assertion when 'catch' has no arguments
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: vala
Classification: Core
Component: Errors
0.7.x
Other All
: Normal major
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Assigned To: Vala maintainers
Vala maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-06-29 09:48 UTC by Kuteynikov
Modified: 2009-08-16 21:19 UTC
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Description Kuteynikov 2009-06-29 09:48:42 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When I write try{} catch {}, and catch has no arguments, valac doesn't show valid error message, but stops with assertion "** (valac:13931): CRITICAL **: vala_error_type_real_compatible: assertion `target_type != NULL' failed"

Steps to reproduce:
1. write try{} catch {} block in your program. There should be no parentheses and arguments after catch.
2. compile it


Actual results:
valac shows assertion "** (valac:13931): CRITICAL **: vala_error_type_real_compatible: assertion `target_type != NULL' failed"

Expected results:
compile my program

Does this happen every time?
yes

Other information:
Comment 1 Jürg Billeter 2009-08-16 21:19:54 UTC 
Cannot reproduce this with master and following simple test case:

void main () {
	try {
	} catch {
	}
}