Help inserting instructions - simple question

[Al]

Will somone please take a quick look at the example below. I am trying to modify each 
method in a class s.t. the first thing it does is allocate a new byte[] (for the 
moment Im happy to just create it and let it go, ... I mean I dont need to bind it to 
anything). I dont understand what more I am supposed to do to insert instructions in a 
method. This code will result in an error like -

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.VerifyError: (class: tests/test1/Test, method: 
main signature: ([Ljava/lang/String;)V) Unable to pop operand off an empty stack

Thanks,

Alan.

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public static void doit(final String sourcePath, final String className) throws 
Exception
{ // Setup
 
org.apache.bcel.Repository.setRepository(org.apache.bcel.util.SyntheticRepository.getInstance(new
 org.apache.bcel.util.ClassPath(sourcePath)));
 final org.apache.bcel.classfile.JavaClass jc = 
org.apache.bcel.Repository.lookupClass(className);
 final org.apache.bcel.generic.ClassGen cg = new org.apache.bcel.generic.ClassGen(jc);
 final org.apache.bcel.generic.ConstantPoolGen cpg = new 
org.apache.bcel.generic.ConstantPoolGen(jc.getConstantPool());
 cg.setConstantPool(cpg);

 // For all the methods in the class, some new instructions
 final org.apache.bcel.classfile.Method[] m = jc.getMethods();
 for(int i = 0; i < m.length; i++)
 { org.apache.bcel.generic.MethodGen mg = new org.apache.bcel.generic.MethodGen(m[i], 
className, cpg);
  mg.setConstantPool(cpg);
  org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionList origIL = mg.getInstructionList();
  org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionHandle[] ih = origIL.getInstructionHandles();
 
  org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory f = new 
org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionFactory(cg);
  org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionList newIL = new 
org.apache.bcel.generic.InstructionList();
  
  // Create a byte array
  newIL.append(f.createNewArray(new 
org.apache.bcel.generic.ArrayType(org.apache.bcel.generic.Type.BYTE, 1), (short)1));

  if(m[index].getName().equals("<init>"))
  { // First let the super or other constructor be called
   for(int j = 1; j < ih.length; j++)
   { if(ih[j].getInstruction() instanceof org.apache.bcel.generic.INVOKESPECIAL)
    { origIL.append(ih[j], newIL);
     break;
    }
   }
  }
  else origIL.insert(ih[0], newIL);

  mg.setMaxLocals();
  mg.setMaxStack();
  m[i] = mg.getMethod();
  origIL.dispose(); // Reuse instruction handles
 }
 
 // Dump the modified class
 jc.setMethods(m);
 jc.setConstantPool(cpg.getFinalConstantPool());
 jc.dump(System.out);
}