extending the constant pool continued

[Patrick McNally]

Hello! (and sorry about the previous premature message)

I'm playing with the class file parser at the moment and I could use  
some help. Specifically, I am trying to use annotations to modify  
bytecode and the constant pool. Byte code turns out to be pretty  
easy, since it and the annotations are parsed at basically the same  
point. But the constant pool has already been parsed and finalized by  
the time the class file parser gets around to parsing my annotations.  
So what I've been doing is creating a new constant pool with the  
extra number of entries, adding what I want to this new pool and then  
reassigning the original constant pool's handle to point to my new  
one. This works fine for a few lines after parse_methods returns, but  
then all of a sudden my new constant pool seems to get garbage  
collected as any reference I try to make to it returns garbage. I'm  
pretty fuzzy about the hotspot garbage collector, so any suggestions  
about how to get a new constant pool to stick around would be much  
appreciated. I've basically just reused the new constant pool  
instantiation code from the parse_constantpool method. Any help would  
be much appreciated!

Thanks!
Patrick

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