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

[Zeinab Lashkaripour]

Thanks Eric.
I really appreciate your patience in answering my questions.

Best Regards,




----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Bodden <eric.bodden at ec-spride.de>
To: Zeinab Lashkaripour <lashkaripour at yahoo.com>
Cc: "soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca" <soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Soot-list] Diff between whole-progam mode and...

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
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