Bug#349779: libbcel-java: BCEL problem with ldc / ldc_w (AKA java.lang.VerifyError: ()V) Illegal constant pool index)

[Matt Keenan]

Package: libbcel-java
Version: 5.1-6
Severity: important
Tags: patch

This bug is fixed in the cvs HEAD branch of BCEL, could we get the fix
backported pretty please :) There are a few write ups at the following URL's.

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=569269&messageID=2814554

http://www.jpox.org/servlet/jira/browse/ENHANCER-43

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=62631

I don't know enough about BCEL to identify where the invalid re-write of the
bytecode opcode is happening sorry :( According to one of the posts its was
fixed in CVS sometime before Sep 25, 2005. Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash-minimal
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages libbcel-java depends on:
ii  gij [java1-runtime]         4:4.0.2-2    The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-3.3 [java1-runtime]     1:3.3.6-7    The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-3.4 [java1-runtime]     3.4.4-5      The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  gij-4.0 [java1-runtime]     4.0.2-7j1    The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii  kaffe                       2:1.1.6.91-2 A JVM to run Java bytecode
ii  kaffe-pthreads [kaffe]      2:1.1.6.91-2 A POSIX threads enabled version of
ii  libregexp-java              1.4-2        regular expression library for Jav

libbcel-java recommends no packages.

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