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Re: is baf really first?
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> According to the "famous Soot picture", Soot first produces Baf from
> bytecode and then produces Jimple from Baf.
>
> So why is it when I run Soot with the verbose option, it seems that
> Jimple is being produced first? A glance at the Coffi code seems to
> confirm this.
Baf is conceptually first, but we don't have a bytecode-to-Baf path, while
we do have a bytecode-to-Coffi and a Coffi-to-Jimple path. This is what
we use. So we say that we produce Baf, but we don't really do any such
thing.
There's also a Jimple parser, of course.
pat