[Soot-list] Diff between whole-progam mode and...

[Eric Bodden]

Hi again.

> Thanks for you detailed reply.
> But there was a sentence in your reply that confused me a bit.
> ".. for instance, you are interested only in analyzing control flow then
> IFDS/IDE would be the wrong tool,..."
> When we want data flow analysis which is flow sensitive, we use the control
> flow which means we analyze the control flow. Do these 2 sentences have
> contrast?

Yes, since IFDS/IDE is flow-sensitive, it does a bit of control-flow
analysis, too - that's right. What I meant is that if you are *only*
interested in control flow, let's say you want to identify loops, for
instance, then IFDS/IDE is not the right tool.

Eric