[Soot-list] suboptimal type assignment?

[Eric Bodden]

On 12/02/2008, Oege de Moor <Oege.de.Moor at comlab.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Are you saying that the Soot type assigner attempts to assign a
> type that is as wide as possible?

Yes, that's what I think it does.

> > Of
> > course, ConditionExpr would work in this setting but why would you
> > assign an unnecessarily narrow type?
>
> For example because  more narrow receiver type implies more effective CHA

Ah, I see. I never thought about that...

Eric

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Eric Bodden
Sable Research Group
McGill University, Montréal, Canada