Rewriting bytecode

[Keith McGuigan]

Nagy Mostafa wrote:
> I saw some code in "relocator.cpp" for bytecode re-writing and was 
> wondering if that should do the trick. I looked at 
> "Relocator::insert_space_at()" which I think expands the size of an 
> instruction and adjusts the method layout accordingly. I suppose I can 
> use that and expand the first instruction enough to have enough space to 
> rewrite my code. I still need of course to fix the exception table 
> manually. Does that sound like a good idea ? Do I still need to adjust 
> the linenumber table if i am not doing any debugging ?

Yeah it's worth a shot, I'd think.  I wouldn't worry about the 
linenumber table except that the debugger uses it.

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- Keith