[Soot-list] Excluding classes

[Eric Bodden]

Hi David.

The -x option merely changes classes (or packages) from being modified
by Soot, by changing them into "library classes". Soot still tries to
load library classes, it just won't process them in any of its
transformers.

When you allow phantom refs then the resolver will skip classes that
it cannot find, modeling them as "phantom classes". However, all
analyses that you then use have to be aware of these phantom classes
and treat them accordingly. Most analyses within Soot are not designed
with phantom classes in mind.

I hope that answers your questions.

Eric

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2009/11/3 David Mohr <dmohr at cs.unm.edu>:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to selectively exclude certain classes from Soot.
>
> I tried using the -x option, but it does not seem to have any effect;
> Soot still says it cannot resolve the class although it is in the
> package mention in -x. The same happens if I try the -dynamic-*
> parameters (I'm not exactly sure what dynamic classes are, but I
> thought I'd give it a try). When I use -allow-phantom-refs I don't get
> any resolver errors, but I get exceptions later, so that is not an
> option either.
>
> Soot is run in the default mode. Is that application mode? I tried
> specifying -app explicitly, but that did not change anything either.
>
> Is there some other way to exclude a referenced class from the
> analysis? Am I using -x wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> ~David
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