oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.attrs
Class LocalVariableTypeTableAttribute
java.lang.Object
oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.Attribute
oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.attrs.LocalVariableTypeTableAttribute
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- ASMLocalVariableTypeTableAttribute
public class LocalVariableTypeTableAttribute
- extends Attribute
The LocalVariableTypeTable attribute is an optional variable-length attribute of a Code
attribute. It may be used by debuggers to determine the value of a given
local variable during the execution of a method. If LocalVariableTypeTable attributes
are present in the attributes table of a given Code attribute, then they may appear in
any order. There may be no more than one LocalVariableTypeTable attribute per local
variable in the Code attribute.
The LocalVariableTypeTable attribute differs from the LocalVariableTable attribute in that
it provides signature information rather than descriptor information. This difference
is only significant for variables whose type is a generic reference type. Such
variables will appear in both tables, while variables of other types will appear only
in LocalVariableTable.
The LocalVariableTypeTable attribute has the following format:
LocalVariableTypeTable_attribute {
u2 attribute_name_index;
u4 attribute_length;
u2 local_variable_type_table_length;
{
u2 start_pc;
u2 length;
u2 name_index;
u2 signature_index;
u2 index;
} local_variable_type_table[local_variable_type_table_length];
}
The items of the LocalVariableTypeTable_attribute structure are as follows:
- attribute_name_index
- The value of the attribute_name_index item must be a valid index
into the constant_pool table a121. The constant_pool entry at that
index must be a CONSTANT_Utf8_info (4.5.7) a122 structure
representing the string "LocalVariableTypeTable" a123.
- attribute_length
- The value of the attribute_length item indicates the length of the
attribute, excluding the initial six bytes.
- local_variable_table_length
- The value of the local_variable_table_length item indicates the
number of entries in the local_variable_table array.
- local_variable_table[]
- Each entry in the local_variable_table array indicates a range of code
array offsets within which a local variable has a value. It also
indicates the index into the local variable array of the current
frame at which that local variable can be found. Each entry must
contain the following five items:
- start_pc, length
- The given local variable must have a value at indices into the
code array in the interval [start_pc, start_pc+length), that is,
between start_pc and start_pc+length exclusive. The value of
start_pc must be a valid index into the code array of this Code
attribute and must be the index of the opcode of an
instructiona124. The value of start_pc+length must either be a
valid index into the code array of this Code attribute and be
the index of the opcode of an instruction, or it must be the
first index beyond the end of that code array a125.
- name_index, signature_index
- The value of the name_index item must be a valid index into
the constant_pool table a127. The constant_pool entry at that
index must contain a CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure
a128 representing a valid unqualified name denoting a local variablea128.
Careful here - do we want any restrictions at all?
The value of the signature_index item must be a valid index
into the constant_pool table. The constant_pool entry at that index
must contain a CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure
representing a field type signature encoding the type
of a local variable in the source program.
- index
- The given local variable must be at index in the local variable
array of the current frame. If the local variable at index is of
type double or long, it occupies both index and index+1.
| Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait |
LocalVariableTypeTableAttribute
public LocalVariableTypeTableAttribute()
getTypes
public java.util.List getTypes()
toString
public java.lang.String toString()
- Overrides:
toString in class java.lang.Object