[Soot-list] Re: Java 1.5 source support

Eric Bodden eric.bodden at mail.mcgill.ca
Mon Oct 22 23:16:19 EDT 2007


On 22/10/2007, Dimitrios Prountzos <dprountz at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Eric,
>
> Thank you for your reply. Do you know if this is
> effort is publicly available through some source code
> repository?

No, it's not yet.

> Also, one more question. In the current implementation
> of Soot, can someone retrieve the type of objects stored
> in a java collection (which is stored as an attibute in the
> constant pool), or does Soot need to be extended in order
> to support this feature? (going through the list archives,
> I saw an negative answer to this question some months ago).

It's not stored at all as far as I know? Java uses type erasure... If
indeed there is such an attribute it should be no big deal to read it
out. But I never heard of such a thing.

Eric

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Eric Bodden
Sable Research Group
McGill University, Montréal, Canada


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