[Soot-list] Main entry points

[Chris Pickett]

Chris Pickett wrote:
> I just want to point out that `grep -i main *' in soot/src/soot/ could 
> have been helpful here:
> 
> $ grep i main *
         ^^^
of course, i typed that in by hand, should be -i...

> ...
> 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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>>
>>
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