Instrumenter incorrectly processes LocalVariableTable entries of zero length

Name: kbR10066 Date: 09/19/2002


Sometimes loading an instrumented class by JVM produces the following error:
java.lang.ClassFormatError: <class name> (Invalid start_pc/length in local var table)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:509)
                . . .
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:130)
                . . .

It turns out that such error is reported when the instrumented class initially
contained a zero-length entry in LocalVariableTable of one of its methods.

The bug was reported by Sarada Kommalapati (###@###.###).

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