LocalVariables and ReturnaddressType

Hi,

I'm having troubles adding ReturnaddressTypes to the LocalVariableTable.

For testing purposes I need to put some subroutines into my methods. To 
do this I have written a program to inline a named method into all other 
methods of the class which invoke that method using subroutines.
Note: javac output even for try{....}catch..finally seems to inline the 
subroutine.

The problem I have is I am not able to add a ReturnaddressType to the 
LocalVariableTable using:
method.addLocalVariable("RetAddress",
                                             new 
ReturnaddressType(ih.getNext()),
                                             inlineInstList.getStart(),
                                             inlineInstList.getEnd());

I need to declare a LocalVariable to hold the Returnaddress as the RET 
instruction expects an index into the LocalVariableTable from which it 
retrieves the returnaddress.

The exception thrown is:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can not 
use <return address targeting  228: iconst_0[3](1)> as type for local 
variable
        at 
org.apache.bcel.generic.MethodGen.addLocalVariable(MethodGen.java:275)
        at 
org.apache.bcel.generic.MethodGen.addLocalVariable(MethodGen.java:295)
        at Inliner.main(Inliner.java:74)

The BCEL source causing the exception to be thrown is:

     *public* LocalVariableGen <http://djvm/internal/bcel-5.2/xref/org/apache/bcel/generic/LocalVariableGen.html> addLocalVariable( String name, Type type, *int* slot,
             InstructionHandle <http://djvm/internal/bcel-5.2/xref/org/apache/bcel/generic/InstructionHandle.html> start, InstructionHandle <http://djvm/internal/bcel-5.2/xref/org/apache/bcel/generic/InstructionHandle.html> end ) {
         byte t = type.getType();
         *if* (t != Constants.T_ADDRESS) {
             *int* add = type.getSize();
             *if* (slot + add > max_locals) {
                 max_locals = slot + add;
             }
             LocalVariableGen <http://djvm/internal/bcel-5.2/xref/org/apache/bcel/generic/LocalVariableGen.html> l = *new* LocalVariableGen <http://djvm/internal/bcel-5.2/xref/org/apache/bcel/generic/LocalVariableGen.html>(slot, name, type, start, end);
             *int* i;
             *if* ((i = variable_vec.indexOf(l)) >= 0) {
                 variable_vec.set(i, l);
             } *else* {
                 variable_vec.add(l);
             }
             *return* l;
         } *else* {
             *throw* *new* IllegalArgumentException("Can not use " + type + " as type for local variable");
	 }
    }

So how do I add a ReturnaddressType to the LocalVariableTable? or is 
there another way of doing this?

Thanks, Bye Arrin

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