[Soot-list] Extending Soot

[Marcos Chicote]

Thanks Eric.
I just want to program and use my own analysis in the new IR. As you said, I
want to be able to use the FlowAnalysis interface.

Thanks again!

Marcos


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Eric Bodden <
bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Marcos, most of the generic data-flow components are very generic. For
> instance, the FlowAnalysis interface just acts on a graph of nodes,
> where nodes are *usually* Jimple Units but in general they could be
> anything.
>
> Also, Unit is a generic interface:
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/doc/soot/Unit.html
> Any statement of your target language could be a unit.
>
> All actual built-in analyses, however, are specific to a single IR.
> Most are specific to Jimple. So my guess would be that if you just
> want to program and use your own analyses on the new IR then this
> should well be possible. However, if your goal is to reuse many of the
> existing Soot-internal analyses then you would have to stick to
> Jimple.
>
> Eric
>
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>
>
> 2009/12/4 Marcos Chicote <totochicote at gmail.com>:
> > Hi!
> > I'm considering Soot to develop some dataflow analysis in a language
> other
> > than Java.
> > My idea is to parse this language X and generate a intermediate
> > representation of the language like Jimple and then use Soot's dataflow
> > engine for the analysis.
> >
> > Is this possible? Has anyone done it? Is there documentation on how to do
> > this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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