[Soot-list] Extending Soot

[Richard L. Halpert]

I think .NET has some primitive types that would be difficult to represent
in java bytecode.  That's probably one of the primary reasons why there
don't seem to be any .NET->java tools out there.  There are some tools that
convert in the opposite direction, though.

-Richard

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Eric Bodden <
bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Hi Attila.
>
> > One big difference is that in VB (at least in the version I use), you can
> > define arguments as In, Out, or InOut. This means, that the current
> ValueBox
> > concept (useBox vs defBox) is not sufficient. How would you map InOut
> > arguments to Jimple?
>
> That is an interesting question. The only "solution" I could come up
> with is to introduce some "box" or "wrapper" type, which is passed as
> parameter by value in such cases so that then you can assign to this
> box in an out parameter.
>
> > Are there already any tools to compile VB to Jimple, VB to bytecode or
> > similar?
>
> None that I am aware of. But such a tool would certainly be very nice
> to have - and even better if it did support the whole .NET
> intermediate language.
>
> Eric
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