diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index 6d3454a5eee..787119bde05 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+2004-04-09  Ranjit Mathew  <rmathew@hotmail.com>
+	
+	* java/lang/VMThrowable.java (getStackTrace): Pass trace as-is to
+	modified lookup().
+	* gnu/gcj/runtime/NameFinder.java (lookup): Change to take in a
+	StackTraceElement directly.
+	(newElement): New native helper method to create StackTraceElement
+	bypassing Java access control.
+	(createStackTraceElement): Use newElement() instead of directly
+	calling StackTraceElement's constructor.
+	* gnu/gcj/runtime/natNameFinder.cc (newElement): New method.
+
 2004-04-01  Michael Koch  <konqueror@gmx.de>
 
 	* java/lang/SecurityManager.java
diff --git a/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/NameFinder.java b/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/NameFinder.java
index 0c358368390..024a6eeb232 100644
--- a/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/NameFinder.java
+++ b/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/NameFinder.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* NameFinder.java -- Translates addresses to StackTraceElements.
-   Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This file is part of libgcj.
 
@@ -241,8 +241,11 @@ public class NameFinder
    * Given an Throwable and a native stacktrace returns an array of
    * StackTraceElement containing class, method, file and linenumbers.
    */
-  public StackTraceElement[] lookup(Throwable t, RawData addrs, int length)
+  public StackTraceElement[] lookup(Throwable t, StackTrace trace)
   {
+    RawData addrs = trace.stackTraceAddrs();
+    int length = trace.length();
+
     StackTraceElement[] elements = new StackTraceElement[length];
     for (int i=0; i < length; i++)
       elements[i] = lookup(addrs, i);
@@ -352,6 +355,16 @@ public class NameFinder
     return stack;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Native helper method to create a StackTraceElement. Needed to work
+   * around normal Java access restrictions.
+   */
+  native private StackTraceElement newElement(String fileName,
+                                              int lineNumber,
+                                              String className,
+                                              String methName,
+                                              boolean isNative);
+
   /**
    * Creates a StackTraceElement given a string and a filename.
    * Splits the given string into the class and method part.
@@ -363,7 +376,7 @@ public class NameFinder
   private StackTraceElement createStackTraceElement(String name, String file)
   {
     if (!demangle)
-      return new StackTraceElement(file, -1, null, name, false);
+      return newElement(file, -1, null, name, false);
 
     String s = demangleName(name);
     String methodName = s;
@@ -409,7 +422,7 @@ public class NameFinder
 	  }
       }
 
-    return new StackTraceElement(fileName, line, className, methodName, false);
+    return newElement(fileName, line, className, methodName, false);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/natNameFinder.cc b/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/natNameFinder.cc
index 41b8f4badf2..d688884ca36 100644
--- a/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/natNameFinder.cc
+++ b/libjava/gnu/gcj/runtime/natNameFinder.cc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // natNameFinder.cc - native helper methods for NameFinder.java
 
-/* Copyright (C) 2002, 2003  Free Software Foundation, Inc
+/* Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004  Free Software Foundation, Inc
 
    This file is part of libgcj.
 
@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ details.  */
 
 #endif /* ! __USER_LABEL_PREFIX__ */
 
+java::lang::StackTraceElement*
+gnu::gcj::runtime::NameFinder::newElement (java::lang::String* fileName,
+                                           jint lineNumber,
+                                           java::lang::String* className,
+                                           java::lang::String* methName,
+                                           jboolean isNative)
+{
+  return new java::lang::StackTraceElement( fileName, lineNumber,
+                                            className, methName, isNative);
+}
+                                          
 java::lang::String*
 gnu::gcj::runtime::NameFinder::getExternalLabel (java::lang::String* name)
 {
diff --git a/libjava/java/lang/VMThrowable.java b/libjava/java/lang/VMThrowable.java
index 4c3385757c4..102916a5d7c 100644
--- a/libjava/java/lang/VMThrowable.java
+++ b/libjava/java/lang/VMThrowable.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* java.lang.VMThrowable -- VM support methods for Throwable.
-   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Classpath.
 
@@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ final class VMThrowable
     if (trace != null)
       {
 	NameFinder nameFinder = new NameFinder();
-	result = nameFinder.lookup(t, trace.stackTraceAddrs(), 
-				   trace.length());
+	result = nameFinder.lookup(t, trace);
 	nameFinder.close();
       }
     else