[Soot-list] How to have whole-program analysis run from non-main() methods

[Eric Bodden]

Hello.

Does this thread answer your questions?
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/pipermail/soot-list/2011-July/003799.html

Eric

On 8 December 2011 15:27, Jiaqi Tan <tanjiaqi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to explore the whole-program call-graph of a program
> completely by flooding it, including from non-main() functions (even
> if this will create disconnected components in the call-graph).
>
> However, it seems that the current Soot whole-program analysis only
> treats functions named as "main", or with a single String[] argument,
> as main functions.
>
> Is there any particular restriction that requires the whole-program
> analysis to begin from a main(String[]) function (i.e. it is just
> impossible to begin whole-program exploration from a non-main()
> function)? Or is it just that an arbitrary exploration was never
> developed?
>
> Help would be much appreciated :)
>
> Thanks!
> Jiaqi Tan
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