[Soot-list] possible bug? (using -dump-cfg on windows)

[Eric Bodden]

Thanks for letting us know Amit.

Do you think you would be able to craft a patch to fix this?

Cheers,
Eric

On 20 June 2012 08:00, Amit <ciphermaker99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> When I use the option -dump-cfg with certain options (e.g. ALL)
> soot tries to create directories containing invalid characters in windows.
>
> For example I get the following trace
> PhaseDumper.dumpBody() caught: java.io.IOException: Unable to mkdirs
> c:\test\sootOutput\java.lang.Object\void <init>()
> java.io.IOException: Unable to mkdirs
> c:\test\sootOutput\java.lang.Object\void <init>()
>         at
> soot.util.PhaseDumper.makeDirectoryIfMissing(PhaseDumper.java:169)
>         ...
>
> What is happening is that soot is trying to create a directory with the name
>
> c:\test\sootOutput\java.lang.Object\void <init>()
>
> However, the < and > characters are not allowed in file/directory names in
> Windows.
> This seems to be a bug.
>
>
>
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