[Soot-list] cloning and renaming constructors

[Eric Bodden]

Hi Khilan.

Yes, <init> is a special name..

In particular, the bytecode verifier requires <init> to be called on
every newly constructed object before the object is used any further.

Also, I think that <init> and <clinit> are the only methods that may
have a "<>" in their name.

Eric

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On 12 November 2010 21:12, Khilan Gudka <khilan at doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was just wondering if it was possible to clone <init> methods and then
> rename the cloned versions to something like <init_clone>? Or does Java
> require instance initialisers to have the name <init>? I tried it and I get
> a ClassFormatException saying that the method name is bad.
> Thanks,
> Khilan
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