[Soot-list] Whole-program and allow-phantom-refs options cause soot to crash

[Guillaume Salagnac]

Hello,

I'm wondering if the whole-program (-ws, in my case) and 
-allow-phantom-refs are compatible. I'm trying to analyse a big app with 
missing libraries, and I would like to get a partial but conservative 
result.

The documentation says :

allow-phantom-refs

     Allow Soot to process a class even if it cannot find all classes 
referenced by that class. This may cause Soot to produce incorrect 
results.

But even with simple command lines like this one (no analysis at all 
here)

java -mx400m soot.Main -allow-phantom-refs -ws -f S myclass

I get various exceptions before soot completes, that are caught and 
displayed by soot mechanisms, and finally it gives up, again with an 
exception, somewhere in the call graph construction.

Does "incorrect results" mean "soot will crash sometimes" or am I 
missing something ?

thanks,
-G
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