From ab5ec510bf5531482230ba6e9e17a9af7e9caeb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Dice <joel.dice@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 08:16:41 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] handle zero length arrays properly in JNIEnv::NewString

---
 src/jnienv.cpp | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/jnienv.cpp b/src/jnienv.cpp
index 9e1d7e9edf..52da9559f7 100644
--- a/src/jnienv.cpp
+++ b/src/jnienv.cpp
@@ -241,9 +241,8 @@ newString(Thread* t, uintptr_t* arguments)
   const jchar* chars = reinterpret_cast<const jchar*>(arguments[0]);
   jsize size = arguments[1];
 
-  object a = 0;
+  object a = makeCharArray(t, size);
   if (size) {
-    a = makeCharArray(t, size);
     memcpy(&charArrayBody(t, a, 0), chars, size * sizeof(jchar));
   }