[Soot-list] Class loading in Soot

[Bodden, Eric]

There's an open bug regarding class loading in Soot:

https://github.com/Sable/soot/issues/88

When using loadClassAndSupport for loading a non-existing class, Soot throws an exception but as a side effect inserts a class reference into the Scene that is "dangling". As a result, if doing the same call again no exception will be thrown and the reference is returned instead. I think we should consistently do either or, i.e., either never throw or always throw. Does anyone have a preference for one over the other?

Eric

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