[Soot-list] annotating an existing .class file

[Bodden, Eric]

Hello.

Indeed, unfortunately there is no support for this. That would have to be solved through an extension.

Eric

On 23.07.2013, at 21:22, Marc-André Laverdière <marc-andre.laverdiere-papineau at polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Hi Quentin,
> 
> As far as I know, Soot always will generate a new file. It is possible
> that this option changes things - I never heard of it before.
> 
> It is possible to add Java annotations that are runtime-preserved,
> meaning that they get written in the bytecode.
> But I don't know if that's going to hurt the bytecode offset. Java
> annotations are stored in the constant pool apparently.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5432611/how-compiler-deals-with-annotations
> 
> 
> On 07/22/2013 12:41 PM, Quentin Sabah wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Does Soot features something to help adding annotations into an existing .class file ? 
>> 
>> I'd like to run some annotation analysis with -keep-bytecode-offset enabled, so that I could annotate the input .class files instead of generating a new one (which would certainly have a different bytecode code array).
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
> 
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