Add option not to generate local variable tables in some scenarios

New Xset option generateNewLocalVariableTables defaults to true
but can be set to false. In some situations incoming bytecode
for weaving doesn't want them adding (e.g. android situations
where the bytecode is a bit funky).

Issue: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=470658

org.aspectj.matcher/src/org/aspectj/weaver/World.java

@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ public abstract class World implements Dump.INode {
 	public boolean forDEBUG_structuralChangesCode = false;
 	public boolean forDEBUG_bridgingCode = false;
 	public boolean optimizedMatching = true;
+	public boolean generateNewLvts = true;
 	protected long timersPerJoinpoint = 25000;
 	protected long timersPerType = 250;
 
@@ -959,6 +960,12 @@ public abstract class World implements Dump.INode {
 	public final static String xsetITD_VERSION_DEFAULT = xsetITD_VERSION_2NDGEN;
 	public final static String xsetMINIMAL_MODEL = "minimalModel";
 	public final static String xsetTARGETING_RUNTIME_1610 = "targetRuntime1_6_10";
+	
+	// This option allows you to prevent AspectJ adding local variable tables - some tools (e.g. dex) may
+	// not like what gets created because even though it is valid, the bytecode they are processing has
+	// unexpected quirks that mean the table entries are violated in the code. See issue:
+	// https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=470658
+	public final static String xsetGENERATE_NEW_LVTS="generateNewLocalVariableTables";
 
 	public boolean isInJava5Mode() {
 		return behaveInJava5Way;
@@ -1621,6 +1628,12 @@ public abstract class World implements Dump.INode {
 				s = p.getProperty(xsetDEBUG_BRIDGING, "false");
 				forDEBUG_bridgingCode = s.equalsIgnoreCase("true");
 
+				s = p.getProperty(xsetGENERATE_NEW_LVTS,"true");
+				generateNewLvts = s.equalsIgnoreCase("true");
+				if (!generateNewLvts) {
+					getMessageHandler().handleMessage(MessageUtil.info("[generateNewLvts=false] for methods without an incoming local variable table, do not generate one"));					
+				}
+				
 				s = p.getProperty(xsetOPTIMIZED_MATCHING, "true");
 				optimizedMatching = s.equalsIgnoreCase("true");
 				if (!optimizedMatching) {

weaver/src/org/aspectj/weaver/bcel/LazyMethodGen.java

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ import org.aspectj.weaver.ResolvedType;
 import org.aspectj.weaver.Shadow;
 import org.aspectj.weaver.UnresolvedType;
 import org.aspectj.weaver.WeaverMessages;
+import org.aspectj.weaver.World;
 import org.aspectj.weaver.tools.Traceable;
 
 /**
@@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ import org.aspectj.weaver.tools.Traceable;
  */
 public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 
+	private static final AnnotationAJ[] NO_ANNOTATIONAJ = new AnnotationAJ[] {};
+
 	private int modifiers;
 	private Type returnType;
 	private final String name;
@@ -95,7 +98,11 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 	int highestLineNumber = 0;
 	boolean wasPackedOptimally = false;
 	private Method savedMethod = null;
-	private static final AnnotationAJ[] NO_ANNOTATIONAJ = new AnnotationAJ[] {};
+	
+	// Some tools that may post process the output bytecode do not long local variable tables
+	// to be generated as one reason the tables may be missing in the first place is because
+	// the bytecode is odd. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=470658
+	private final boolean originalMethodHasLocalVariableTable;
 
 	/*
 	 * We use LineNumberTags and not Gens.
@@ -152,6 +159,7 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 		this.attributes = new ArrayList<Attribute>();
 		this.enclosingClass = enclosingClass;
 		assertGoodBody();
+		this.originalMethodHasLocalVariableTable = true; // it is a new method, we want an lvar table
 
 		// @AJ advice are not inlined by default since requires further analysis and weaving ordering control
 		// TODO AV - improve - note: no room for improvement as long as aspects are reweavable
@@ -186,7 +194,7 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 			throw new RuntimeException("bad abstract method with code: " + m + " on " + enclosingClass);
 		}
 		this.memberView = new BcelMethod(enclosingClass.getBcelObjectType(), m);
-
+		this.originalMethodHasLocalVariableTable = savedMethod.getLocalVariableTable()!=null;
 		this.modifiers = m.getModifiers();
 		this.name = m.getName();
 
@@ -223,7 +231,7 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 		this.memberView = m;
 		this.modifiers = savedMethod.getModifiers();
 		this.name = m.getName();
-
+		this.originalMethodHasLocalVariableTable = savedMethod.getLocalVariableTable() != null;
 		// @AJ advice are not inlined by default since requires further analysis
 		// and weaving ordering control
 		// TODO AV - improve - note: no room for improvement as long as aspects
@@ -1121,14 +1129,19 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 		}
 
 		addExceptionHandlers(gen, map, exceptionList);
-		if (localVariables.size() == 0) {
-			// Might be a case of 173978 where around advice on an execution join point
-			// has caused everything to be extracted from the method and thus we
-			// are left with no local variables, not even the ones for 'this' and
-			// parameters passed to the method
-			createNewLocalVariables(gen);
-		} else {
-			addLocalVariables(gen, localVariables);
+		if (originalMethodHasLocalVariableTable || enclosingClass
+				.getBcelObjectType()
+				.getResolvedTypeX()
+				.getWorld().generateNewLvts) {
+			if (localVariables.size() == 0) {
+				// Might be a case of 173978 where around advice on an execution join point
+				// has caused everything to be extracted from the method and thus we
+				// are left with no local variables, not even the ones for 'this' and
+				// parameters passed to the method
+				createNewLocalVariables(gen);
+			} else {
+				addLocalVariables(gen, localVariables);
+			}
 		}
 
 		// JAVAC adds line number tables (with just one entry) to generated
@@ -1174,6 +1187,9 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 		}
 	}
 
+	private World getWorld() {
+		return enclosingClass.getBcelObjectType().getResolvedTypeX().getWorld();
+	}
 	/*
 	 * Optimized packing that does a 'local packing' of the code rather than building a brand new method and packing into it. Only
 	 * usable when the packing is going to be done just once.
@@ -1258,16 +1274,17 @@ public final class LazyMethodGen implements Traceable {
 			}
 		}
 		gen.setInstructionList(theBody);
-		if (localVariables.size() == 0) {
-			// Might be a case of 173978 where around advice on an execution join point
-			// has caused everything to be extracted from the method and thus we
-			// are left with no local variables, not even the ones for 'this' and
-			// parameters passed to the method
-			createNewLocalVariables(gen);
-		} else {
-			addLocalVariables(gen, localVariables);
+		if (originalMethodHasLocalVariableTable || getWorld().generateNewLvts) {
+			if (localVariables.size() == 0) {
+				// Might be a case of 173978 where around advice on an execution join point
+				// has caused everything to be extracted from the method and thus we
+				// are left with no local variables, not even the ones for 'this' and
+				// parameters passed to the method
+				createNewLocalVariables(gen);
+			} else {
+				addLocalVariables(gen, localVariables);
+			}
 		}
-
 		// JAVAC adds line number tables (with just one entry) to generated
 		// accessor methods - this
 		// keeps some tools that rely on finding at least some form of