[Soot-list] Implication of include-all in whole-program mode

[Steven Arzt]

Hi Manas,

The "include-all" and "app mode" options are completely orthogonal to whether you enable whole program mode or not. Include-all means that no classes will be excluded by default, not even internal stuff like sun.*. App mode means that all classes on the Soot classpath are treated as application classes, so everything is loaded and transformed. This so far only tackles inputs.

Whole program mode takes whatever your inputs are and then runs transformers that not only look at a body at a time, but at the whole scene. You need it for algorithms such as callgraph computation. It does not define what the scene includes or treats as application or library classes.

I hope this clarifies the concepts a bit.

Best regards,
  Steven

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Von: soot-list-bounces at CS.McGill.CA [mailto:soot-list-bounces at CS.McGill.CA] Im Auftrag von Manas Thakur
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Hello all,

What happens when I add or do not add “include-all” in whole-program mode? The command-line options webpage describes it only for “app” mode; however, I could observe the number of potential callees at a JDK call-site to decrease if I do not give “include-all” in whole-program mode as well.

Regards,
Manas
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