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

[Steven Arzt]

Hi Cheng,

 

This is intended behavior. Reserved names cannot be used as method names, field names, or class names. If we read in a file that contains such illegal names, we escape them using single quotes.

 

Best regards,

  Steven

 

Von: soot-list-bounces at CS.McGill.CA [mailto:soot-list-bounces at CS.McGill.CA] Im Auftrag von Cheng Zhang
Gesendet: Dienstag, 31. März 2015 17:36
An: Soot-list at CS.McGill.CA
Betreff: [Soot-list] Single quotation marks in Jimple method names

 

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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