[Mono-list] Regex Exception - Discrepancy between .NET and Mono

[Matt Lee]

Dear All,
The simple class below throws an exception, but under .NET
an ArgumentNullException is thrown, whereas under Mono
a NullReferenceException is thrown.

using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var r = new Regex("");
        r.Match(null);
    }
}

I spotted this because the stack trace contained line references that
weren't on my machine:

Unhandled Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set
to an instance of an object
  at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match (System.String input, Int32
startat) [0x00000]
    in
C:\cygwin\tmp\monobuild\build\BUILD\mono-2.2\mcs\build\common\Consts.cs:1
  at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match (System.String input)
[0x00000]
    in
C:\cygwin\tmp\monobuild\build\BUILD\mono-2.2\mcs\class\System\System.Text.RegularExpressions\Regex.cs:337
  at Program.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]

For reference the .NET stack trace is below:

Unhandled Exception: System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: input
   at System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(String input)
   at Program.Main(String[] args)

Should I file a bug about this? Or do we not really!

Thanks,
Matt
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