diff --git a/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/ClassParseException.java b/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/ClassParseException.java
index 7d1753463607677f4a069c1c76d7a425d66a8e60..cbf564ea13fe5a329a64e10f26d00450c677dfcd 100644
--- a/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/ClassParseException.java
+++ b/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/ClassParseException.java
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ package com.amd.aparapi;
       ACCESSEDOBJECTONLYSUPPORTSSIMPLEPUTFIELD("We don't support putfield instructions beyond simple setters"), //
       ACCESSEDOBJECTSETTERARRAY("Passing array arguments to Intrinsics in expression form is not supported"), //
       MULTIDIMENSIONARRAYASSIGN("Can't assign to two dimension array"), //
-      MULTIDIMENSIONARRAYACCESS("Can't access through a two dimensional array");
+      MULTIDIMENSIONARRAYACCESS("Can't access through a two dimensional array"),//
+      MISSINGLOCALVARIABLETABLE("Method does not contain a local variable table (recompile with -g?)");
 
       private String description;
 
diff --git a/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/MethodModel.java b/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/MethodModel.java
index 12beb19250ecf6a439e24aefdca01ade1f447673..be1c8f3ec5b07e9c72ef833fe7d60720dc5dc6f8 100644
--- a/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/MethodModel.java
+++ b/com.amd.aparapi/src/java/com/amd/aparapi/MethodModel.java
@@ -1472,6 +1472,9 @@ class MethodModel{
          if (Config.enableAllowMissingLocalVariableTable && localVariableTableEntry == null) {
             logger.warning("class does not contain a LocalVariableTable - but enableAllowMissingLocalVariableTable is set so we are ignoring");
          } else {
+            if (localVariableTableEntry == null){
+               throw new ClassParseException(ClassParseException.TYPE.MISSINGLOCALVARIABLETABLE);
+            }
             for (LocalVariableInfo localVariableInfo : localVariableTableEntry) {
                final boolean DISALLOWARRAYLOCALVAR = false;
                if (DISALLOWARRAYLOCALVAR && localVariableInfo.getVariableDescriptor().startsWith("[")) {