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

[Ishan Khot]

And when API methods are invoked or methods from user referenced libraries
are invoked , do those show up in the call graph as well?


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Quentin Sabah <quentin.sabah at inria.fr>wrote:

> 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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