[Soot-list] build AST

[Paritosh Shroff]

Pat, Chris:

My program analysis algorithm is stack-based so I don't want to use 
Jimple, as the latter is a 3-address representation. But I can use baf 
or probably even Dava (as Chris pointed out). By the way, there doesn't 
seem to be any documentation about Dava on Soot's homepage, is there 
some place where I can look up some example code employing Dava?

Also, my analysis is a whole program analysis, so I need to have a 
collection of AST's of all the class files in either baf or Dava 
representation. I can then define visitors to visit the nodes on these 
AST's and perform my analysis.

Thanks for all your help!
Cheers,
Pari

Patrick LAM wrote:

>On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Paritosh Shroff wrote:
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>>I want to use Soot to parse the java bytecode and give me the AST
>>(abstract syntax tree), which I can then use to perform my analysis. I
>>have read all the tutorials on the homepage of Soot, but they mostly
>>describe how to use Soot to perform optimizations using the Jimple format.
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>Chris is mostly right.  You can also do analyses on the Dava intermediate
>representation, which is an abstract syntax tree synthesized from the
>class files.  But Jimple is probably what you actually want to use.  It
>would help if you mentioned what properties you were interested in.
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>pat
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