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

[Phil Pratt-Szeliga]

Hello,

Also, if I knew the desired behavior I could make a patch

-Phil

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Eric Bodden <eric.bodden at ec-spride.de> wrote:
> 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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