The JDK 6.0 will be creating a StackMapTable attribute that is required for verification.
This attribute contains byte code offsets, constant pool index values, and descriptions of the stack contents. The BCEL code re-writes classfiles and will need to process these attributes.

> cat HelloWorld.java
public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String args[]) {

        /* Use a generic type */
        java.util.List<String> l = new java.util.ArrayList<String>();
        String.format("%s", "");

        /* Just some code with branches */
        try {
            if ( args.length == 0 ) {
                System.out.println("No arguments passed in");
            } else {
                System.out.println("No arguments passed in");
            }
        } catch ( Throwable e ) {
            System.out.println("ERROR: System.out.println() did a throw");
        } finally {
            System.out.println("Hello, world!");
        }
    }
}

> /opt/java/jdk1.6.0/bin/javac -target 1.6 -g HelloWorld.java
> /opt/java/jdk1.6.0/bin/javap -verbose HelloWorld | tail -15
   line 19: 87
   line 20: 89
  LocalVariableTable:
   Start Length Slot Name Signature
   59 8 2 e Ljava/lang/Throwable;
   0 90 0 args [Ljava/lang/String;
   8 82 1 l Ljava/util/List;
  LocalVariableTypeTable: length = 0xC
   00 01 00 08 00 52 00 1C 00 1F 00 01
  StackMapTable: length = 0x12 <---- StackMap Attribute
   00 05 FFFFFFFC 00 27 07 00 21 07 4A 07 00 22 53 07 00
   22 0A

}



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