[Soot-list] dollar sing prefix to variables. Do you need it or not?

[Paris Yiapanis]

many thanks Eric.

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Eric Bodden <
bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:

> Paris, this makes no difference.
>
> $ usually means that the variable represents a stack location, i.e.,
> not a local variable from the source code. But this is just a
> convention.
>
> Eric
>
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> On 25 June 2010 11:23, Paris Yiapanis <yiapanip at cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am not sure what the dollar sign in front of variables means.
> > For me it looks like the locals with the dollar sign are like references
> to
> > fields and the ones without it are like method local variables.
> > However when I try to produce Jimple in general, even if I am pointing to
> > fields, all the local variables I generate do not have the dollar sign.
> > Does that make any difference?
> >
> > or for instance if $r6 and $r5 are instance field arrays an assignment
> (of
> > $r6 to $r5) looks like that:
> >
> > $i1 = $r6[i0];
> > $r5[i0] = $i1;
> >
> > whereas an assignment of local arrays does not have the dollar signs?
> >
> > So, is there any difference if the dollar sign is there or not? or could
> you
> > have all variables without the dollar sign and just depend on their
> > definition for whatever type they will be assigned?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> >
> > Paris
> >
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