[GROOVY-5287] invalid unboxing in compare and other operations if primopts are enabled

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.6, 2.0-beta-3
• Component/s: primtive opts
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 08/Feb/12 04:12
• Updated: 08/Feb/12 06:17
• Resolved: 08/Feb/12 06:17

Description

the program

def proceed(){}
def checkResponse() {return null}

Integer responseCode = checkResponse()
if (responseCode == 200) {1.8.4 running in Grails 2.0.0     
 proceed()
} 

fails with a NPE in the == operation because it tries to unbox the response code, where it should have instead boxed the constant to do the dynamic compare.