DatagramPacket patch

[Jeroen Frijters]

Hi,

Does anyone have any objections to the patch below? The docs say nothing
about address not allowed to be null and indeed Sun's implementation
does allow it.

Regards,
Jeroen

Index: java/net/DatagramPacket.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/classpath/classpath/java/net/DatagramPacket.java,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -r1.14 DatagramPacket.java
--- java/net/DatagramPacket.java        8 Apr 2004 16:26:03 -0000
1.14
+++ java/net/DatagramPacket.java        29 Jun 2004 09:41:40 -0000
@@ -278,9 +278,6 @@
    */
   public synchronized void setAddress(InetAddress address)
   {
-    if (address == null)
-      throw new NullPointerException("Null address");
-
     this.address = address;
   }