[Soot-list] How does soot handle abstract classes and API/framework invocations in call graphs?

Ishan Khot ishankhot.ik at gmail.com
Wed Jun 5 05:17:19 EDT 2013


Thanks a lot for the answer,
However I am still interested in knowing how soot handles abstract classes
and API/framework invocations while generating the call graph?


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Quentin Sabah <quentin.sabah at inria.fr>wrote:

> Hi,
> This information is computed by the chosen points-to analysis, and also
> visible in the call-graph. It is not the "exact type" of the caller, but
> the "possible types", depending on the precision of the points-to analysis.
>
> On 06/04/2013 05:15 PM, Ishan Khot wrote:
> > Hello Soot-List,
> >
> > I am interested in knowing about how soot handles abstract classes and
> > API/framework invocations while generating the call graph? Is it
> >   possible to know the exact type of the caller when a method of an
> > interface is called?
> > Thank You
> >
> >
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