From c55a1db4b1eb66c0d8a59163d5e971703eaf59cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aclement <aclement>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:04:13 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Guard against NPE

---
 .../org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java    | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java b/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java
index ec48fdd5f..26bf3f4b0 100644
--- a/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java
+++ b/asm/src/org/aspectj/asm/internal/AspectJElementHierarchy.java
@@ -136,7 +136,10 @@ public class AspectJElementHierarchy implements IHierarchy {
 			if (packageName == null) {
 				packageNode = root;
 			} else {
-				for (Iterator it = root.getChildren().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
+				if (root == null) return null;
+				List kids = root.getChildren();
+				if (kids == null) return null;
+				for (Iterator it = kids.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
 					IProgramElement node = (IProgramElement)it.next();
 					if (packageName.equals(node.getName())) {
 						packageNode = node;
-- 
2.39.5