Doesn't trace static initialization

[Erhannis]

I'm currently dealing with a bug which happens to occur in a static initializer. The stack trace shows the stack extends past java.lang.Class.forName(), and crashes in the loaded class, but ODB does not step into the classloading, so I can't see the exact circumstances of the crash. (I'm using Java 8.)

[madhephaestus]

Do you have code examples you could link to?

[Erhannis]

Sure.

public class Main2
{
   public static class SomeClass
   {
      static
      {
         Double notNull = null;
         notNull.doubleValue();
      }
   }

   public static void main( String[] args )
   {
      SomeClass sc = new SomeClass();
   }
}

ODB shows that there was a crash, but only that it originated from somewhere on the SomeClass sc = new SomeClass(); line. It does not show the execution of the static initializer lines.

Having delved a little into the code of ODB, I now suspect fixing this to be very difficult. I could be mistaken, though.