KB-20071113-029

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• Status: respond received
• author: matthey
• link:
  • matthey: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/msg/4cad20bb560858a1
  • more details: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/fcf88c87039fdef6
• Confirmed on: Eclipse 3.3.1.1: OSX 10.4.10/10.5.1, Windows XP, Vista.
• Description: Attempt to debug causes Eclipse to crash.
• Steps to reproduce:

Debug any application that has code similar to:

...
Object someObject = null;
...

You will get crash.

[edit] Temporarily solution

suggested by Andreas Beresko [1].

When you need to assign "null" to an object, just extract the assignment into a separate method and in debug mode, step over it.

e.g.

Object o = new Object();
setToNull(o); // <-- do NOT step into in debug, because this will lead to the crash!

private void setToNull(Object o){
    o = null;
 }