From 62777c6ab8e2e34b6da91baf88a1fb9e4e5c45b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maxim Shafirov <max@jetbrains.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 16:31:34 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] NPE possible theoretically

---
 .../platform-impl/src/com/intellij/diagnostic/VMOptions.java     | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/diagnostic/VMOptions.java b/platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/diagnostic/VMOptions.java
index 16b2750eece1..ed0b5e2f5c3e 100644
--- a/platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/diagnostic/VMOptions.java
+++ b/platform/platform-impl/src/com/intellij/diagnostic/VMOptions.java
@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ public class VMOptions {
       String optionValue = option + value + "m";
       String content = read();
 
+      if (content == null) content = "";
       content = replace(pattern, content, optionValue, "", "", content + " " + optionValue);
 
       if (file.exists()) {