[Soot-list] Can I use soot to do this

[Raghav Karol]

On 8/4/06, Nicholas Irving <exnirving at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I have been expirementing (without success) to generate a Call Graph
> of a simple HelloWorld application, so as to be able to see if it
> makes a call to a particular System Function. For example I wanted to
> see when using FileWriter it made a called to FileOutputStream
>
> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, NamingException {
>          FileWriter out = new FileWriter("test.txt");
> }
>
> produces
>
> HelloWorld<init>()V
>         java.lang.Object<init>()V
> HelloWorldmain([Ljava/lang/String;)V
>         java.io.FileWriter<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
>                 java.io.FileOutputStream<init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V
>                 java.io.OutputStreamWriter<init>(Ljava/io/OutputStream;)V
>

You example program does make any call to a method of FileWriter
except the constructor  and that's what the call graph shows.

Adding a call like out.write(...) in the main function should give you
the information you would want.

> Is this type of analysis possible with Soot?
>
> Nicholas Irving
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Raghav

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