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

[Quentin Sabah]

On 06/05/2013 11:17 AM, Ishan Khot wrote:
> 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?

If A is an abstract class, only its methods reached by the control-flow 
will be in the CG. This may happen if their is a concrete class C 
sub-classing A and the control-flow reaches allocations of C objects, 
and these objects receive calls that transitively reach A's methods.


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