[Soot-list] Introducing the ASM Frontend for Soot

[Steven Arzt]

Hi Marc-André,

Please send me the respective JAR files and I'll have a look.

Best regards,
  Steven

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: soot-list-bounces at CS.McGill.CA [mailto:soot-list-bounces at CS.McGill.CA]
Im Auftrag von Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2014 12:36
An: 'Soot list'
Betreff: Re: [Soot-list] Introducing the ASM Frontend for Soot

Alas, I've been having some exceptions using it.

a) TagBuilder, method visitAttribute().
This gave problem with some jars compiled by the Scala compiler because
there are some attributes that are called 'Scala' or ScalaXYZ...

Suggested fix:
        if (attr.type.startsWith("Scala")) return;
		throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Unknown attribute:
" + attr.type + "
for host" + host);

b) AnnotationElemBuilder method visit
I get the exception when 'value' is a boolean[2]. And I have no idea what it
means.

I don't like the idea of crashing when dealing with unknown annotations -
does it make sense to silently ignore them (or log a message?)

Regards,

--
Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Doctorant - PhD Candidate


Quoting Steven Arzt <Steven.Arzt at cased.de>:

> Hi Soot Users,
>
>
>
> I just merged the new ASM frontend for parsing Java “class” files into 
> the Soot develop branch. This frontend has been around in its own 
> branch for quite a while now, so we decided to go forward on that now. 
> My student has invested quite some time into testing it and sorting 
> out a number of issues and we now believe that it is sufficiently 
> stable for productive use. ASM is several times faster than Coffi, 
> while supporting all of its features, so we made it the default. If 
> you find any issues with the new frontend, please send me an e-mail.
>
>
>
> If you need to, you can use the new “coffi” Boolean option from either 
> code or the command line to get back Coffi.
>
>
>
> If you use ANT for building Soot, please note that there is a new line 
> for the path to the ASM library in ant.settings – just copy it over 
> from the ant.settings.template file.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
>   Steven
>
>
>
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