Re: BCEL with jdk 1.5beta2

JDK 1.5 changed the classfile format so that LDC instructions
can directly reference class constants.

The latest CVS version of BCEL should correctly handle this.

-Dave

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 02:20:28PM +0530, SH wrote:
> Hi,
> I have trouble analyzing  class files generated with sun's JDK 1.5 beta2.
> a LDC_W.getType() seems to always throw the following exception:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Unknown or
> invalid constant type at 34
> at org.apache.bcel.generic.LDC.getType(LDC.java:148)
> ...
> 
> Inevitable,  a javap -v <class> on the constant pool offset printed 
> (34 in the example above) has something like this
> --
> ...
> const #11 = Asciz   com/sun/corba/se/spi/logging/LogWrapperBase;
> ...
> const #33 = Asciz   setThrown;
> const #34 = class   #11;    //  com/sun/corba/se/spi/logging/LogWrapperBase
> --
> 
> i.e. CP entry #34 seems to be redirected to #11. it looks like the getType() 
> is unable to handle this redirection.
> 
> is this something new to the 1.5 class file format or the 1.5b2 compiler ?
> Is there a known workaround ? All the classes I am trying to analyze are in
> rt.jar. thanks.
> 
> /sgh
> 
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