[Soot-list] Error in the static inliner phase?

[Mario Mendez]

Don't worry, it's not urgent at all, just something I found yesterday. 
Thank you for your real-time help, guys!!!!!

Eric Bodden wrote:
> So far I can confirm that this is a bug. However, we are quite busy at
> the moment. So if it's not urgent for you, I will enter it in bugzilla
> and we will take care of it later.
> 
> Eric
> 
> On 03/05/07, Mario Mendez <mario at cs.unm.edu> wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> When invoking soot in a simple Hello World class
>>
>> package examples;
>>
>> public class Hello {
>>
>>         public static void main(String[] args) {
>>                 System.out.println("Hello world");
>>         }
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>> with the Whole program mode activated (copy of the ant parameters):
>>
>>           <arg value = "-f"/>
>>           <arg value = "n"/>
>>           <arg value = "-W"/>
>>           <arg value = "-include-all"/>
>>           <arg value = "--app"/>
>>           <arg value = "-output-dir"/>
>>           <arg value = "${ciao_lib}"/>
>>            <arg value =  examples.Hello"/>
>>
>>
>>
>> I obtain the following error:
>>
>>       [java] Soot started on Thu May 03 12:24:00 MDT 2007
>>       [java] [Call Graph] For information on where the call graph may be
>> incomplete, use the verbose option to the cg phase.
>>       [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
>>       [java]    at soot.util.HashChain.insertBefore(HashChain.java:169)
>>       [java]    at 
>> soot.PatchingChain.insertBefore(PatchingChain.java:135)
>>       [java]    at
>> soot.jimple.toolkits.invoke.SiteInliner.inlineSite(SiteInliner.java:154)
>>       [java]    at
>> soot.jimple.toolkits.invoke.StaticInliner.internalTransform(StaticInliner.java:144) 
>>
>>       [java]    at 
>> soot.SceneTransformer.transform(SceneTransformer.java:39)
>>       [java]    at soot.Transform.apply(Transform.java:89)
>>       [java]    at soot.ScenePack.internalApply(ScenePack.java:44)
>>       [java]    at soot.Pack.apply(Pack.java:110)
>>       [java]    at 
>> soot.PackManager.runWholeProgramPacks(PackManager.java:407)
>>       [java]    at soot.PackManager.runPacks(PackManager.java:326)
>>       [java]    at soot.Main.run(Main.java:203)
>>       [java]    at soot.Main.main(Main.java:146)
>>       [java]    at soot.CiaoMain.main(Unknown Source)
>>       [java] Java Result: 1
>>
>>
>> , which is not raised when the static inlining phase is deactivated (add
>> this above):
>>           <arg value = "-p"/>
>>           <arg value = "wjop.si"/>
>>           <arg value = "off"
>>
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