[Soot-list] Main entry points

[Chris Pickett]

I just want to point out that `grep -i main *' in soot/src/soot/ could 
have been helpful here:

$ grep i main *
...
EntryPoints.java:    /** Returns a list of all concrete main(String[]) 
methods of all
EntryPoints.java:    public List mainsOfApplicationClasses() {
...

Cheers,
Chris

Eric Bodden wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> getMainClass() returns *the* unique main-class for your application.
> This class is either stated explicitly on the command line
> (-main-class YourMainClass) or it is inferred. In the latter case,
> Soot just takes the first application class with a main method it can
> find.
> 
> I think in your case this method will help:
> 
> soot.EntryPoints.mainsOfApplicationClasses()
> 
> (call "EntryPoints.v().mainsOfApplicationClasses()")
> 
> This returns a list of SootMethod's (all main-methods). For each
> method you can then retrieve the declaring class using
> m.getDeclaringClass().
> 
> Eric
> 
> On 24/04/07, Mario Mendez <mario at cs.unm.edu> wrote:
>> Thank you again for the quick responses to previous emails. The
>> Hierarchy class has saved quite a lot of time of my life!
>>
>> Another question: is there any method to retrieve all the application
>> classes that contain a 'main' method? I mean, my analysis will have 2
>> modes: 'library', in which all public methods can be considered as entry
>> points, and 'main', in which only the mains of the application classes
>> can be considered as entry points.
>>
>> I found Scene.getMainClass, but it returns a SootClass (instead of a
>> List) and since there is no Javadoc about it, it's not clear to me which
>> criteria does the method use to choose that main class. For example, if
>> we run
>>
>> soot -f n -output-dir ./ilciao_lib/ -app examples.Qsort
>> jolden.voronoi.Voronoi
>>
>> , then the main class returned by Scene.getMainClass is examples.Qsort
>>
>> If we invert the order of the parameters
>>
>> soot -f n -output-dir ./ilciao_lib/ -app jolden.voronoi.Voronoi
>> examples.Qsort
>>
>> , then the main class returned by Scene.getMainClass is
>> jolden.voronoi.Voronoi
>>
>> Is there an API method to get both classes (AND ANY OTHER APPLICATION
>> CLASS CONTAINING A MAIN) or should I just iterate over the public
>> methods looking for those whose definition match with the one of main?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
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