[Soot-list] Accessing AST

[Eric Bodden]

The Java frontend in Soot is Polyglot. So if you only want to use
frontend functionality you could rather use Polyglot (or SableCC or
Eclipse for instance) directly.



Eric  

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> mbatch at cs.mcgill.ca
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:53 PM
> To: David A Weiser
> Cc: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
> Subject: Re: [Soot-list] Accessing AST
> 
> On Tue, January 30, 2007 5:19 pm, David A Weiser wrote:
> > Is there a way to traverse the AST of Java with SOOT?
> 
> Are you talking about Java source?
> 
> You could always use a SableCC generated lexer/parser. Java 
> grammars are available on the website, too, so it is as 
> simple as writing a single printer adapter class.
> 
> The other option is to look at the code of the Soot 
> decompiler (DAVA). It has a slightly-nonconformist AST, with 
> respect to the rest of Soot. Might have what you are looking for.
> 
> Finally, if you specify Java source as input to Soot, it uses 
> a Java-to-Jimple parser, which has an internal AST 
> representation. You can poke around in the code in the 
> package "soot.javaToJimple.jj".. but I'm not sure how 
> complicated and/or thorough it is.
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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