2007-04-03 Roman Kennke <roman@kennke.org>

	* java/nio/ByteOrder.java
	(nativeByteOrder): Let this fail when the corresponding
	property is not set properly.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3bf829d48..a4dce4384 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 2007-04-03  Roman Kennke  <roman@kennke.org>
 
+	* java/nio/ByteOrder.java
+	(nativeByteOrder): Let this fail when the corresponding
+	property is not set properly.
+
+2007-04-03  Roman Kennke  <roman@kennke.org>
+
 	* javax/swing/plaf/basic/BasicTreeUI.java
 	(getPathBounds): Consider the tree's insets. Added a bunch of
 	null checks.
diff --git a/java/nio/ByteOrder.java b/java/nio/ByteOrder.java
index 77cd64db0..0e3b9173e 100644
--- a/java/nio/ByteOrder.java
+++ b/java/nio/ByteOrder.java
@@ -61,7 +61,9 @@ public final class ByteOrder
    */
   public static ByteOrder nativeOrder()
   {
-    return ("big".equals(System.getProperty("gnu.cpu.endian"))
+    // Let this fail with an NPE when the property is not set correctly.
+    // Otherwise we risk that NIO is silently working wrong.
+    return (System.getProperty("gnu.cpu.endian").equals("big")
             ? BIG_ENDIAN : LITTLE_ENDIAN);
   }