Re: [scheng@clear.net.nz: Soot 1.3]

[Navindra Umanee <navindra@cs.mcgill.ca>]

> I was just wondering what the status of SSA-Jimple is. I take it there's
> no chance it could make it into the version of Soot that I'm hoping to
> release this week, but is there any chance that it will ever be
> finished, or is it something that someone should just start from scratch
> (621 is starting up again after Christmas...)

It's been on hold but I don't think there is any point in re-doing it,
except as an exercise, since it's basically there.  I just don't want
to unleash it without properly thinking about and handling some issues
first, like dealing with non-scalars (arrays, references, ...) and
like using SSA in combination with the control dependence graph (which
I don't think is a problem per se, but there's some other work I saw
related this that I need to review).

At this point I can't get it ready for this week because I have
assignments, projects, etc left for the end of term but as soon as I'm
free I should be able to have something in a week or two.

> I remember some time ago someone mentioned a release of 1.3.0 end of summer,
> which would include a new improved Jimple implementation. Is that still on
> schedule for release?

I'm not sure you could call this a new improved Jimple implementation.
Can you describe what you had in mind exactly?

Other features that will be integrated in future releases are the
attributes-to-source feature by Maxime and possibly some significant
GUI fixes and soup-ups by Benoit.

Cheers,
Navin.