[Soot-list] Soot variable representation

[Bodden, Eric]

… almost.

$ means it did not use to be a variable in source code. It’s an artificial variable representing a stack location. No $ means it was a “real” local variable.

Eric

> On 22.04.2015, at 04:17, Haipeng Cai <hcai at nd.edu> wrote:
> 
> Xinxin,
> 
> It is my understanding that $ means the variable is on the stack and being without it means it is on the heap.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Xinxin Jin <xinxinjin89 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Soot variables sometimes has a "$" prefix but sometimes not. What is the difference between "r0" and "$r0" ?
> 
> Example:
> r11 = new com.example.android.Test;
> $r3 = r11;
> 
> Thanks very much.
> 
> 
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