[Soot-list] Announcing Soot 2.4.0

[Eric Bodden]

I just realized that I forgot to mention one change to Soot that I
believe is well worthwhile mentioning:

Syed Albiz and Patrick Lam provided a patch to Soot that makes
-allow-phantom-refs work again. Many thanks to both of them!

Using this option you can force Soot to ignore classes that it cannot
find. That way, you can, for example, construct a call graph for just
a single "main" class. However, always keep in mind in that case that
the call graph that you will may be unsound for what you are doing -
you get what you are asking for.

Eric

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Dr. Eric Bodden
Software Technology Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Tel: +49 6151 16-5478    Fax: +49 6151 16-5410
Mailing Address: S2|02 A209, Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt



On 29 March 2010 12:44, Eric Bodden
<bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> Dear Soot Users,
>
> We are pleased to announce that Soot version 2.4.0 is now available
> at: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/
>
> This release contains the following additions and improvements:
>
> 1. Hossein Sadat-Mohtasham's implementation of program dependency graphs
>
> 2. Support for creating sound call graphs even for programs that use
>   reflection, custom class loaders and runtime-generated classes.
>   For this purpose, Soot uses TamiFlex to create a runtime log file that
>   contains information about how reflection is being used. Spark then
>   uses the log file during call-graph and points-to graph construction.
>   See http://code.google.com/p/tamiflex/wiki/DaCapoAndSoot for details.
>
> Also we incorporated fixes to numerous bugs. Thanks for reporting bugs
> and/or providing fixes!
>
> See http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/CHANGES for details.
>
> As of version 2.2.0 the Soot bugzilla is available at:
> http://svn.sable.mcgill.ca/bugzilla/. We encourage you to add any Soot
> bugs there.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> --
> Dr. Eric Bodden
> Software Technology Group, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
> Tel: +49 6151 16-5478    Fax: +49 6151 16-5410
> Mailing Address: S2|02 A209, Hochschulstraße 10, 64289 Darmstadt
>