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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ * 
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ * 
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ * 
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ * 
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Nashorn parser API --empty-statements option test.
+ *
+ * @test
+ * @run
+ */
+
+var SimpleTreeVisitor = Java.type("jdk.nashorn.api.tree.SimpleTreeVisitorES5_1");
+var Parser = Java.type("jdk.nashorn.api.tree.Parser");
+
+// with --empty-statements parse tree should contain
+// EmptyStatement tree nodes. Without this option, empty
+// statement Tree nodes may be optimized away by Parser.
+var emptyStatParser = Parser.create("--empty-statements");
+
+var emptyStat = ";";
+emptyStatParser.parse("empty.js", emptyStat, print).
+    accept(new (Java.extend(SimpleTreeVisitor)) {
+        visitEmptyStatement: function(node, p) {
+            print("inside EmptyStatement visit");
+        }
+    }, null);