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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8207160
+ * @summary ClassReader::adjustMethodParams can potentially return null if the args list is empty
+ * @compile pkg/Outer.jasm pkg/Outer$Inner.jasm AvoidNPEAtClassReaderTest.java
+ */
+
+import pkg.*;
+
+/** this test is checking that javac doesn't fail with NPE when reading inner classes with constructors
+ *  that doesn't have as a parameter a reference to the outer class. Such constructors were generated by
+ *  versions of javac previous to JDK7.
+ */
+
+public class AvoidNPEAtClassReaderTest {
+    public void bar(Outer outer) {
+        Object stuff = outer.foo();
+    }
+}