[Soot-list] How could I get the source location of a Stmt/Unit?

[Karthik Rao]

Yeah. AFAIK the bytecode you are analyzing should be compiled with debug
symbols for the getJavaSourceStartLineNumber() to work correctly. You can
check the below link for more info

https://mailman.cs.mcgill.ca/pipermail/soot-list/2015-January/007636.html


Cheers,
Kaarthik

On Wed 21 Mar, 2018, 04:11 周书林, <zhoushulin1992 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Kaarthik,
>
> You mean that I need to generate the .jar file from java source code by
> myself? Thanks a lot.
>
> Sep.
>
> 2018-03-21 11:07 GMT+08:00 Karthik Rao <karthik.0703 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hey Sep,
>>
>> You should instruct the Java compiler to generate debug information
>> (which includes line numbers) while generating the class files. Also there
>> is an option to preserve line number in Soot  i.e.*-keep-line-number. *You
>> can find a list of all the command line options which Soot accepts here
>> <https://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/tutorial/usage/>.
>>  Cheers,
>> Kaarthik
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:54 AM, 周书林 <zhoushulin1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new in soot. I use it to analyse some .jar files. In this
>>> procedure, I want to get the source location of a Stmt/Unit, i.e. the line
>>> number of this Stmt/Unit is in the source file. I found there are two APIs
>>> namely getJavaSourceStartLineNumber() and
>>> getJavaSourceStartColumnNumber(). But the return values of these two
>>> APIs are always -1.
>>>
>>> Could you please point out where is wrong about these usages? And how
>>> could I get the right source location of a Stmt/Unit?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much.
>>>
>>> Sincerely.
>>> Sep
>>>
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>>
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>> Karthik Rao
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