[Soot-list] Soot as a rewriting tool - adding a method during body transformation

[David Mohr]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Patrick Lam <plam at sable.mcgill.ca> wrote:
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> Eric Bodden wrote:
>> Hi David.
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>> I think the correct way to go about this is to:
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>> 1.) Enable whole-program mode (I know you don't like it).
>>
>> 2.) Disable all w* packs except the pack wjtp, which is empty by
>> default. (Set their phase option "enabled" to false.) Also disable the
>> cg pack. This should prevent Soot from running expensive whole-program
>> analyses.
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>> 3.) Add a SceneTransformer to the wjtp pack and add the methods in there.
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> I'm surprised that Soot doesn't use a snapshotIterator for iterating on
> the methods. On the other hand, that would have overhead (it shouldn't,
> but it probably does).
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> An alternative to Eric's suggestion might be to create your own
> (Scene)Pack and add the methods in that Pack.

Yes, that's what I ended up doing. It seems to work well. Thanks for
the suggestion!

~David