[Soot-list] soot-jasmin update ?

[Vincent Cavé]

Hi Eric,

I wanted to generate "bridge" methods as defined in here http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jvms/second_edition/ClassFileFormat-Java5.pdf

It should be pretty much the same as supporting the synthetic attribute.

Best,
Vincent

On Feb 10, 2012, at 8:02 AM, Eric Bodden wrote:

> Hi Vincent.
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not very easy. Soot is using a spawn of the
> original jasmin. Our version was spawned of years ago and since then
> has had many features added that the "official" version does not
> support. In fact, I believe that our version has now more features
> than the original one, which, to the best of my knowledge, has not
> been updated for years. (We recently added support for Java 7's
> invokedynamic bytecodes, for instance.)
> 
> But what exactly are those jl5 attributes you are talking about? There
> probably is similar feature in Soot's version of Jasmin, or may be
> those attributes can be added easily.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> On 10 February 2012 14:47, Vincent Cavé <vc8 at rice.edu> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'd like to use soot to generate methods that have some jl5's attributes such as the 'bridge' attribute. As I found out soot uses a modified version of jasmin which doesn't support these feature present in the official jasmin 2.4.
>> 
>> Are there any major problems preventing from updating soot-jasmin to the latest jasmin ? Is this something you're planning to do at some point ?
>> 
>> Best,
>> Vincent
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