diff --git a/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs b/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs
index 2f9ba13dcccbcce24547952d964bdab46c3ef9a1..ea3e4a51534a26c1a1cb963891c1838d4fcd02ed 100644
--- a/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs
+++ b/.settings/edu.umd.cs.findbugs.core.prefs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #FindBugs User Preferences
-#Mon Nov 03 07:44:13 CET 2014
+#Tue Nov 04 15:49:25 CET 2014
 detector_threshold=3
 effort=max
 excludefilter0=.fbExcludeFilterFile|true
diff --git a/src/performancetest/java/teetime/util/concurrent/workstealing/alternative/ExceptionalCircularWorkStealingDequeTest.java b/src/performancetest/java/teetime/util/concurrent/workstealing/alternative/ExceptionalCircularWorkStealingDequeTest.java
index 21858b035af37dc26059cb6b4eb4d44d868aafa3..679ab97612b270f9d5d380434eaa69c1fd96eb06 100644
--- a/src/performancetest/java/teetime/util/concurrent/workstealing/alternative/ExceptionalCircularWorkStealingDequeTest.java
+++ b/src/performancetest/java/teetime/util/concurrent/workstealing/alternative/ExceptionalCircularWorkStealingDequeTest.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ public class ExceptionalCircularWorkStealingDequeTest {
 				deque.popBottom();
 			} catch (final DequeIsEmptyException e) {
 				// do not handle; we just want to compare the performance of throwing a preallocated exception vs. returning special values
+				throw new IllegalStateException(e);
 			}
 		}
 		this.stopWatch.end();