[Soot-list] Single quotation marks in Jimple method names

[Cheng Zhang]

Hi,

I am using soot-infoflow to build call graphs for Java programs. When I was
checking the resulting call graph edges, I found that method names in
Jimple method signatures may be enclosed with single quotation marks.

For example, in JodaTime, I observed a method signature as below:

      <org.joda.time.Partial: org.joda.time.Partial
'with'(org.joda.time.DateTimeFieldType,int)>

By searching in the GitHub repository of Soot, I find that "with" is
probably a keyword used by Jimple, as indicated in the file below:


https://github.com/Sable/soot/blob/2df9b853cb2ce548e07587a213262b64565360b7/src/jimple.scc

I can try to work around this issue for my current task, since there are
very limited number of methods with special names.
But I am wondering whether it is a design of Jimple to have single
quotation marks in special method names (or it may be something can be
fixed).

Thanks,
Cheng
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