diff --git a/jode/jode/flow/CreateNewConstructor.java b/jode/jode/flow/CreateNewConstructor.java
index c59d838..2726407 100644
--- a/jode/jode/flow/CreateNewConstructor.java
+++ b/jode/jode/flow/CreateNewConstructor.java
@@ -27,6 +27,25 @@ import jode.NewOperator;
 public class CreateNewConstructor implements Transformation{
 
     public boolean transform(FlowBlock flow) {
+        /* Situation:
+         *
+         *  new <object>
+         *  DUP
+         *  PUSH load_ops
+         *  optionally:  <= used for "string1 += string2"
+         *      DUP_X2
+         *  [ n non void + some void expressions ]
+         *  stack_n.<init>(stack_n-1,...,stack_0)
+         *
+         * transform it to
+         *
+         *  PUSH load_ops
+         *  optionally:
+         *      DUP_X1      <= remove the depth
+         *  [ n non void + some void expressions ]
+         *  PUSH new <object>(stack_n-1,...,stack_0)
+         */
+
         if (!(flow.lastModified instanceof InstructionBlock)
             || !(flow.lastModified.outer instanceof SequentialBlock))
             return false;
@@ -38,64 +57,70 @@ public class CreateNewConstructor implements Transformation{
             return false;
 
         /* The rest should probably succeed */
-        int params = constrCall.getOperandCount();
-        Expression[] exprs = new Expression[params];
+        int params = constrCall.getOperandCount() - 1;
+        SpecialBlock optDup = null;
         SequentialBlock sequBlock = (SequentialBlock) block.outer;
-        try {
-        for_loop:
-            for (int i = params-1; i>0; i--) {
-
-                block = (InstructionBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[0];
-                exprs[i] = block.getInstruction();
-                sequBlock = (SequentialBlock) sequBlock.outer;
-
-                while (sequBlock.subBlocks[0] instanceof InstructionBlock) {
-
-                    Expression expr = 
-                        ((InstructionBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[0])
-                        .getInstruction();
-
-                    if (!expr.isVoid())
-                        continue for_loop;
-                    if (exprs[i].canCombine(expr) <= 0)
+        while (params > 0) {
+            if (!(sequBlock.subBlocks[0] instanceof InstructionBlock))
+                return false;
+            Expression expr 
+                = ((InstructionBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[0]).getInstruction();
+            if (!expr.isVoid())
+                params--;
+            if (expr.getOperandCount() > 0) {
+                if (params == 0
+                    && sequBlock.outer instanceof SequentialBlock
+                    && sequBlock.outer.getSubBlocks()[0] 
+                    instanceof SpecialBlock) {
+                    /* handle the optional dup */
+                    sequBlock = (SequentialBlock) sequBlock.outer;
+                    optDup = (SpecialBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[0];
+                    if (optDup.type != SpecialBlock.DUP
+                        || optDup.depth != 2)
                         return false;
-
-		    exprs[i] = exprs[i].combine(expr);
-                    SequentialBlock subExprBlock = 
-                        (SequentialBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[1];
-                    subExprBlock.moveDefinitions(sequBlock, subExprBlock);
-                    subExprBlock.replace(sequBlock);
-                    sequBlock = subExprBlock;
-                    ((InstructionContainer)subExprBlock.subBlocks[0]).
-                        setInstruction(exprs[i]);
-                    sequBlock = (SequentialBlock)sequBlock.outer;
-		}
+                    params = optDup.count;
+                } else
+                    return false;
             }
+            if (!(sequBlock.outer instanceof SequentialBlock))
+                return false;
+            sequBlock = (SequentialBlock) sequBlock.outer;
+        }
+
+        while (sequBlock.subBlocks[0] instanceof InstructionBlock
+               && ((InstructionBlock)sequBlock.subBlocks[0])
+               .getInstruction().isVoid()
+               && sequBlock.outer instanceof SequentialBlock)
+            sequBlock = (SequentialBlock) sequBlock.outer;
+               
+        if (sequBlock.outer instanceof SequentialBlock
+            && sequBlock.subBlocks[0] instanceof SpecialBlock) {
             SpecialBlock dup = (SpecialBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[0];
             if (dup.type != SpecialBlock.DUP 
                 || dup.count != 1 || dup.depth != 0)
                 return false;
+
             sequBlock = (SequentialBlock)sequBlock.outer;
+            if (!(sequBlock.subBlocks[0] instanceof InstructionBlock))
+                return false;
             block = (InstructionBlock) sequBlock.subBlocks[0];
-            exprs[0] = block.getInstruction();
-            if (exprs[0].isVoid())
+            if (!(block.getInstruction() instanceof NewOperator))
                 return false;
-            NewOperator op = (NewOperator) exprs[0].getOperator();
+
+            NewOperator op = (NewOperator) block.getInstruction();
             if (constrCall.getClassType() != op.getType())
                 return false;
-        } catch (ClassCastException ex) {
-            return false;
-        } catch (NullPointerException ex) {
-            return false;
+
+            block.removeBlock();
+            dup.removeBlock();
+            if (optDup != null)
+                optDup.depth = 0;
+            ((InstructionContainer) flow.lastModified).setInstruction
+                (new ConstructorOperator(constrCall.getClassType(), 
+                                         constrCall.getMethodType()));
+            return true;
         }
-        ((InstructionContainer) flow.lastModified).setInstruction
-            (new ComplexExpression
-             (new ConstructorOperator(constrCall.getClassType(), 
-                                      constrCall.getField()),
-              exprs));
-             
-        flow.lastModified.moveDefinitions(sequBlock, null);
-        flow.lastModified.replace(sequBlock);
-        return true;
+        return false;
     }
 }
+