[Soot-list] A question about using a subset of optimizaitons directly on bytecode

[David Beaumont]

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Eric Bodden <eric.bodden at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> The only problem is the conversion
> to/from Jimple. Soot uses a bytecode parser called Coffi to convert
> bytecode into Jimple. Usually this reads the bytecode from file but I
> am pretty sure that you could easily extend it to use a byte array
> instead.

But I would only want (in the ideal case) to give it the bytecode for
a single method, not the whole class. Does this sound plausible?

I am using ASM to get the class bytecode and reconstruct the class at
the end, so things like local stack size should be recalculated
accordingly.

Or, does Coffi/Jasmin need to see the whole class (It's not clear if a
JimpleBody relates to a whole class or a single method) ?

> Both Coffi and Jasmin operate on streams (Coffi on an InputStream and
> Jasmin on an OutputStream). Therefore it should be easy to just use
> ByteArrayInput/OutputStreams instead to get what you want.

Sounds ideal!

Cheers,
    David

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