Patch by Alena Laskavaia for 186172: NullPointerException in debugger console

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/mi/core/GDBProcess.java b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/mi/core/GDBProcess.java
index bb7e5ce15dc..c2af3523625 100644
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/mi/core/GDBProcess.java
+++ b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/mi/core/GDBProcess.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2004, 2006 QNX Software Systems and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 QNX Software Systems and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@
  *
  * Contributors:
  * QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation
+ * Alena Laskavaia (QNX) - Fix for 186172
  *******************************************************************************/
-package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core; 
+package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core;
 
 import java.util.Map;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.cdi.model.Target;
@@ -17,11 +18,13 @@ import org.eclipse.debug.core.model.RuntimeProcess;
  
 public class GDBProcess extends RuntimeProcess {
 
-	private Target fTarget;
+	// volatile because the field may be accessed concurrently during construction
+	private volatile Target fTarget;
 
-	public GDBProcess( Target target, ILaunch launch, Process process, String name, Map attributes ) {
+	public GDBProcess(Target target, ILaunch launch, Process process, String name, Map attributes) {
 		super( launch, process, name, attributes );
 		fTarget = target;
+		fireChangeEvent();
 	}
 
 	public Target getTarget() {