[Soot-list] Early question: Soot for Java 8?

[Bodden, Eric]

Hi all.

I have just hired a new student assistant who will be looking into Java 8 support (for bytecode, that is). He will first integrate the ASM frontend (https://github.com/Sable/soot/pull/2) and then update that frontend to cope with the new bytecodes.

If you have any insights about the new bytecode, though, it would be great if you could share them.

Eric

On 01.03.2014, at 20:10, hadil at graymattertechnology.com wrote:

> I will be happy to contribute to Soot development, when I reach that phase of my own product development. That may be down the road a bit, as I am still learning the ropes.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hadil G. Sabbagh, Ph.D.
> Gray Matter Technology, LLC
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Soot-list] Early question: Soot for Java 8?
> From: Marc-André_Laverdière
> <marc-andre.laverdiere-papineau at polymtl.ca>
> Date: Sat, March 01, 2014 11:52 am
> To: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca
> 
> Hello Hadil,
> 
> First, I'm glad to hear of another Scala user! I hope we'll be more and
> more in Soot.
> 
> Coming to your question, Eric has been maintaining the Java front-end
> and the latest update is for Java 7 and under testing.
> 
> We certainly would like to support the latest version of Java as soon as
> possible, but we don't have a deadline yet. If you want to volunteer to
> help, that would be great. The grammar part is not too hard, because
> Soot uses an open source Java grammar. Where there is more work is the
> Jimple generation.
> 
> As for Java 8 bytecode, do you know how major the bytecode changes are?
> The little that I know is that there is a lot of invokedynamic, which
> Soot already supports.
> 
> Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
> Doctorant - PhD Candidate
> 
> On 02/27/2014 01:04 PM, hadil at graymattertechnology.com wrote:
> > Hello:
> > 
> > I am using Soot for a project to compile Java and Scala code into CUDA
> > PTX. This is inspired by the Rootbeer project.
> > 
> > I am wondering if there are any plans to have Soot support Java 8, or if
> > there are resources to do so.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Hadil Sabbagh, Ph.D.
> > Gray Matter Technology, LLC.
> > 
> > 
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