[Soot-list] Soot handling java source files 1.8

[Henrique Rebêlo]

Hi Eric,

We support up to the latest Java version in *bytecode* now, but I am afraid
> that the source code parser is not very reliable, and I am sure it won’t
> work with Java 1.8. Would you be able to compile the projects to bytecode
> and analyse this bytecode instead?


Thanks much. Yeah, I'll consider using it in this way instead...

thanks again

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 11:01 AM Eric Bodden <eric.bodden at uni-paderborn.de>
wrote:

> Hi Henrique.
>
> We support up to the latest Java version in *bytecode* now, but I am
> afraid that the source code parser is not very reliable, and I am sure it
> won’t work with Java 1.8. Would you be able to compile the projects to
> bytecode and analyse this bytecode instead?
>
> Cheers
> Eric
>
> > On 30. May 2020, at 02:13, Henrique Rebêlo <hemr at cin.ufpe.br> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My first issue about going on about to use soot is to know if the tool
> really processes .java files version 1.8. That said, I was wondering if
> soot can convert or process the 1.8 source file and generates one [using
> the -f option] with its erasure or something compatible to Java 1.4... I'm
> working with a tool that perform some analysis on source code but only
> works until java 1.4. If I could translate the input 1.8 to 1.4 I could
> work with that tool...
> >
> > Thanks much
> >
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