[Soot-list] running intra-procedural analysis before whole-program analysis

[Arnab De]

Is there any way I can put the intra-procedural analysis in the jb
pack? Looks ugly, but will it work in all cases?

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Eric Bodden
<bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Hi Arnab.
>
>> I am developing an analysis using soot where I need to run some
>> intra-procedural analysis for each method first and then use the
>> result of this analysis in a whole-program analysis. Soot runs all the
>> whole-program analysis packs before the intra-procedural ones. Is
>> there a way to change the order in which these analyses run?
>
> Currently the only wy to get what you want is to poke around with the
> PackManager, adding a new pack at the beginning. The problem with that
> is that all the methods that you need for this are currently private.
> I am not sure why that is, actually. I guess we could make addPack(..)
> public...
>
>> Moreover,
>> I need the result of an analysis as a data structure to use in in
>> later phases. Is there any interface for that?
>
> The way in which it's most often done is to have some static
> datastrcture (i.e. a singleton) that keeps the data around. Or use
> tags to annotate methods or statements...
>
> Eric
>