[Soot-list] process-dir, main-class, entry points and call graph

[jiangfan shi]

Hi Eric,

Just follow one quick question.


> Without -app, Soot only loads bodies for classes
> explicitly mentioned on the command line (and in -process-dir), with
> -app Soot also loads bodies for all classes transitively referenced by
> the former.
>

For "all classes transitively referenced by the former", it seems we need
some call graph-like mechanism to decide which concrete classes are possible
referenced by the classes on the command line. For example, we have a class
A with a method M1 shown below:

class A{
   B tmpb; // B is an interface.
   M1(){
      tmpb.M2();
   }
}

In the above example, B is an interface with 3 implementations, B1, B2 and
B3. If we have the follow command line:

java soot.Main --app A


Will only B be processed or will all B, B1, B2 and B3 be processed? A will
be processed with BodyTransformer in any case.

Thanks.

Jiangfan


> -process-dir is just a quick way of making all classes in a directory
> "application classes", i.e. load and process their bodies. Again, this
> is only useful when not in -w mode.
>
> Eric
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> Coordinator of the CASED Advisory Board of Study Affairs
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