Determining the scope of local variables (without the DEBUG option turned off)

[wassim masri <qd...@hotmail.com>]

I am trying to get the scope of the local variables in a method (given the 
index)

I initially thought that I can just call MethodGen.getLocalVariables(), get 
the local variables table, locate my variable given its index then get the 
scope from the LocalVariable object  (using getStartPC and getLength).

It turned out that if the target byte code is not compiled with the DEBUG 
option turned on, MethodGen.getLocalVariables() only returns entries 
corresponding to the arguments of a method and ignores the local variables 
declared inside the method

For example, in the method foo( ) below, the returned table will have a 
single entry as opposed to 3:

public static void foo (int x )
{
	int y, z;
}

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Wes

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